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^iian, Marie Bauman, Marguerite de St. Amande, Pierre Noting, 

 Paul Neyron, Maurice Bernardin, Xavier Olibo. 



Of climbers, I advise to keep away from at present, except a 

 few prairies, like Baltimore Belle, Half Climbing, Princess Adelaide 

 Moss, and Reine Marie Henriette if covered. I find the Clematis 

 family by far the finest blooming climbers, and hardy, which none 

 of the roses mentioned are, sufficiently to withstand 22° below 

 freezing this year, except the Moss, Madame Zoetman, and B. Belle. 

 All others are Remontant, or Hybrid Perpetual, and killed now to 

 the ground or snow line. But as they are to be pruned, it matters 

 little ; entirely different from climbers, which should not be cut 

 much. If you try the Lanuginosa section of clematis, say Candida, 

 you will not plant many climbers besides. Flamula will do, with 

 Candida, for trial. Roses must be planted together in rich, clayish, 

 well manured soil, dug at least two spades deep. I plant about two 

 feet aj)art, have a splendid oval bed, shaded north and west, open 

 east and partly south. I find it best to get own root plants, two 

 years old, from open ground. Get the best plants. True to name 

 is a very strong point ; and care should be taken to know what one 

 is to get before ordering. — George BocJc, in Gardener's Monthly. 



VARIETY OF EOSES. 



The variety of monthly roses best adapted for winter is lim- 

 ited. A great mistake is frequently made by the inexperienced in 

 using too many kinds. The roses most likely to be valuable the 

 coming winter are here named in the order of their excellence : 

 Sunset, a rich orange color, shaded with crimson, possessing the 

 true tea fragrance ; Perle des Jardins, deep yellow ; Niphetos, 

 large pure white ; Catherine Mermet, a shell pink ; Marshall 

 Robert, pale canary yellow ; Southern Belle, a real blush rose ; 

 Souvenir d' Ami, delicate pink ; Bon Silene, very deep pink, with 

 delightful fragrance ; Mde. Cusin, silvery salmon tinted ; and 

 Douglass a dark crimson. There are hundreds of others offered by 

 growers, but when the limit of this list is passed the results will 

 not be so satisfactory. Nearly all the colors known in roses are here 

 represented. 



SPRAYS FOR BOUQUETS. 



Flowers should be cut in the early morning when the dew is 

 on. No other moisture so thoroughly impregnates a plant as dew. 

 We know that oats or wheat bound when wet with rain will dry out 

 much more rapidly than if wet with dew. If flowers are moist 

 with dew when cut they will continue fresh much longer than if 



