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"Wyndmoor" is another Pennsylvania seedling, as it is a native 

 of Montgomery County, and was raised from seed in a rose-growing 

 locality by the name which the new rose is known by, namely Wynd- 

 moor. This rose growing settlement is about twelve miles from 

 the City Hall, Philadelphia, and one half mile over the dividing line 

 between Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties. There are now 

 seven separate establishments located here, where in the year 1880, 

 one only was started in a very modest and unpretentious way. It 

 takes about five thousand tons of coal every winter to heat the nu- 

 merous greenhouses here. The new rose now under consideration 

 is a seedling between the well known and celebrated "American 

 Beauty" and "Safrano," another old-time favorite, which flourished 

 at the same time with the Bon Silene, above referred to. Wynd- 

 moor is also pink in color, resembling in that respect the Hybrid 

 Remontant, "Mrs. John Laing," though the flower of the new rose 

 is not quite so large as the older variety, but it has the advantage 

 of being a perpetual bloomer. It is very well thought of by those 

 who admire and use flowers in large quantities. At one of the swell 

 balls held a week or two ago in Philadelphia, buds and open blos- 

 soms of this variety were used to the number of seventeen hundred, 

 and gave entire satisfaction. So far this new variety has only been 

 used for winter flowering. 



Still another seedling rose raised in Pennsylvania that promises 

 to make good, and which first saw and flourished in the bright sun- 

 light in the good city of Philadelphia has been honored by the name 

 of the Superintendent of the United States Botanic Gardens at 

 Washington, D. C, namely William R. Smith. This is the result of 

 a cross between Maman Cochet and Madame Hosbe. The latter, 

 which I believe was the pollen parent, was grown quite largely for 

 the production of cut blooms in winter, and is grown to some extent 

 at the present time, as it is a free bloomer and possesses the ideal 

 shape in the bud form, and by liberal treatment the flowers may be 

 grown to quite a large size, but its coloring was not considered suf- 

 ficiently decided to become popular as a commercial cut flower; it is 

 a creamy white; had it been a bright yellow similar to the Marechal 

 Neil or Pere des Jardins, it would be grown quite extensively to-day. 

 While the seed or pistilate parent, Maman Cochet, is recognized for 

 growing outdoors as the Queen of pink garden roses, and where the 

 tea scented roses are hardy, this variety is found to be the hardiest 

 of the hardy. The progeny of this good pair of roses, the William 

 R. Smith, was discarded by its raiser for winter blooming as not 

 being bright enough in coloring during the dull winter months, but 

 a firm of florists in the State of Indiana claim to be very much en- 

 couraged with some experiments they are making with it and are 

 hopeful that they will succeed in developing it into a valuable winter 

 bloomer. It has already proven its worth as a garden rose. Should 

 it prove to be valuable for winter forcing, it will be another lesson 

 taught, which is: not to be too hasty in condemnation, for it is a 

 well-known fact that at the present time the very popular Irish rose, 

 Killarney, when it first came out was by more than one firm of rose 

 growers in the vicinity of Philadelphia, put aside as being too 

 flimsy in its petalage. It is now very largely grown, being a very 

 beautiful shade of delicate pink in color, and the buds are exquisite- 

 ly graceful in form. This brings us to another new Irish rose, Mrs. 



