Secretary' fi Budget. 21)9 



FLOWERS. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 



The following varieties were mentioned as among the best, by 

 members of tlie Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at a recent 

 meeting for discussion : 



William H, Spooner said that Mme. G. Luizet has proved 

 beautiful under the past trying season of extreme drouth. Alfred 

 Colomb, Jean Liabaud, Victor Verdier, and J. Stuart Mill have 

 done well. Magna Charta has done admirably. La Eosiere, a 

 dark kind, very much like Princess Camille de Rohan, if not iden- 

 tical, has done better than ever before, as iiave also Abel Oarriere 

 and Jean Soupert. The Duke of Wellington has been fine. The 

 Climbing Victor Verdier is one of the best garden roses. Chestnut 

 Hybrid has tea foliage, and has suffered from winter, but in an 

 ordinary season would be hardy. La France and Souvenir de Mons 

 Boll have done well. Climbing Bessie Johnson is a very strong 

 grower and has flowered freely. Marie Baumann is an old kind 

 which has done "well. Baron de Bonstetten is among tlie best. 

 Charles Lawson, a Bourbon, gives a mass of bloom, but is not 

 suited for exhibition. John Hopper is good. The Duke of Edin- 

 burgh is not up to the standard. Jules Margottin, and the climbing 

 variety of the same, have both done well. 



Some of the hybrid perpetual roses have very beautiful 

 foliage ; Mme. Dupuy Germain is almost as good in this respect as 

 Baroness Rothschild. Captain Christy is a hybrid tea, with beau- 

 tiful foliage, but a little tender ; Mme. C. Wood is a good flower, 

 but a poor grower ; Louisa Van Houtte is the best rose of its color, 

 but was almost a total failure with the speaker. Senateur Vaisse 

 is an admirable garden rose, and so is Marquise de Castellane in 

 most seasons. Fisher Holmes is an improvement on Genei'al 

 Jacqueminot. Dr. Andry is perfectly hardy, but Mme. Eugenie 

 Verdier is a little tender. With the multitude of varieties tlie 

 hybrid perpetuals are the class for general cultivation ; the newer 

 shades are very desirable. 



E. L. Beard said that Baroness Rothschild is irregular in 

 blooming, and in this climate is a failure out-doors. 



M. P. Wilder said that many of the roses mentioned by Mr, 

 Spooner have taken their places as permanently as the Baldwin 



