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TFfE GARDENER'S MONJIII.Y 



iMay, 



COMPARATIVE ROSE LIST. 



i!Y i!i.i:<ii;N, .ii;K>in c rrv, m;\v jKitsKv. 



1 st'iid y<ui a ropy of tilt' English election list, 

 and one of Mr. Kllwaiim-r (of Ellwanger & 

 Barry) called the American List of Roses, taken 

 from the Garden of Nov. 17th. isTT. hopini; that 

 yon may tind il of siitlii-ient interest to publish it. 

 If you do it might lead to a further cU^scussion of 

 the merits of many of the roses and benefit all 

 lovers of them, and the trade also by making a 

 greater demand for what might prove the greatest 

 favorites. Other jioints of interest would arise 

 as to fresh hloomers, the most perpetual, «&c., 

 of the hybrids, of which the list is largel}' com- 

 posed. Why should such general favorites as 

 Genei'al Jacqueminot, Safrauo, IJon Silene, &c., 

 be left out, when they have been so generally 

 adopted as foi"cing roses in this t'ountry? 



Best 48 Roses, English Election and Mr. Ell- 

 wanger's lists : 



fJnrilinh. 



1 Marie liaiiiuan. 



2 Alfred Colonib. 



3 Charles Lofebvre. 



4 La France. 



5 Marechal Neil. 



< Baronne de Rothschild. 



7 Francois Miclielou. 

 « Louis Van Iloutte. 



Etieune Level. 



Marquise dc Castellane. 



Mad. Victor Verdier. 



Duke of Ediiil)urgh. 



Mdlle. Marie Uady. 



Comtesse de Oxford. 



Doctor Andry. 



Senateur Vaisse. 



Xavier Olibo. 



Mdlle. Ktijjeuie Verdier. 



Edouard Morren. 



Catherine Mermet. 



Horace Vernet. 



Marguerite de St. Amand. 



Emilie Ilansburgh. 



Ferdinand de Lesseps. 



Dupuy Jamaiu. 



Caniille Bernardin. 



John Hopper. 



Reynolds Hole. 



Tictor Veredier. 



Prince Camille de Rohan. 



Mdlle. Marie Van Houtte. 



Captain Christy. 



Madame Lacharme. 



Devoniensis. 



E. Y. Teas. 



Duke of Wellington. 



Souvenir d'un Ami. 



Pierre Xotting. 



Souvenir d' Elise. 



M. Marie Finger. 



Mad. Marie Cointet. 



Fisher Holmes. 



Monsieur Xorman. 



Comtesse de Serenye. 



Sir Garnett Woolsley. 



Mad. Charles Wood. 



Star of Waltham. 



Mdlle, Annie Wood. 



Amerkan. 

 La France. 

 Marechal Neil. 

 INIaric Banman. 

 LouiM Van Houtte. 

 AUrcd Coloinb. 

 fCharli s Lifcl)vre. 

 (Ferdinand de Lesseps. 

 Catherine Mermet. 

 Mdlle. Marie Van Houtte. 

 Mad. Victor Verdier. 

 Mdlle. Marie Kady. 

 Francois Michelon. 

 Marquise de Castellane. 

 Baronne de Rothschild. 

 Etieune Levet. 

 Mdlle. Eugenie Verdier. 

 John Hopper. 

 Abel Grand. 

 Comtesse de Oxford. 

 Seualeu Vaisse. 

 Victor Verdier. 

 Glorie Dijon. 

 Comtesse de Sambac. 

 Captain Christy. 

 Niphetos. 

 Chehunt Hybrid. 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, 

 Comtesse de Serenye. 

 Mdlle Marie Cointet. 

 Rubens. 



Belle Lyonnaise. 

 Comtesse de Chabrillant. 

 Marguerite de St. Amand. 

 Mad. de Ridder. 

 Mdlle. Therese Levet. 

 Horace Vernet. 

 Exposition deBrie. 

 Souvenir de Malmaison. 

 Marie Dncher. 

 Fisher Holmes. 

 General Washington. 

 I'ierre Notting. 

 Mad. Norman. 

 Mdlle. Boniiaire. 

 Mad. Berard. 

 Mad. Trifle. 

 Maurice Bernardin. 

 Reynolds Hole. 

 Mad. Marie Finger. 



PINUS GLABRA. 



BY DR. MELLICHAMP, BLUFFTOX, S. C. 



This is a splendid tree, and I have often won- 

 dered that it has not been cultivated. It is 



rare about me, indeed, never abundant any- 

 where ; but last fall I saw very beautiful an<l 

 I stately trees on the edge of the swamps near 

 ; the Savannah river rice fields. A few years ago 

 I procured two or three trees, a foot or two in 

 height, but they have hardly grown at all i'» 

 , this dry and sandy soil ; and yet 1 have seen 

 ! them grow in such situations as Calebogue 

 i Sound, Hilton Head— within sight of the ocean. 

 I But they usually prefer the rich wet knolls of 

 I the swamps, but never anywhere do they form 

 I forests of pines as do the others, 

 i [Iloopes, Bro. & Thomas had a nice specimen 

 in their collection at the Centennial Exhibi- 

 I tioii. — Ed. G. M,] 



CARPET BEDDING. 



BY C, J. BJORKLUND, HAMPTON, VA. 



Fig. 13, 24 feet long by H wide. I is Alter- 

 I nanthera Paronychioides major; 2, A. versicolor; 



, Fig. U. 

 3, A. amocna; 4, Leucophyton Brownii ; and 

 5, Sedum acre elegans. 



Fig. 14 has a diameter of 15 feet, with thereon 

 arranged tliirteen smaller circles ; the center 

 circle a is to be a specimen of Agave Americana 

 variegata in the center, then Sedum spectabile 

 roseum ; one ring of Rochea falcata; one do. 

 Cei'astium arvense ; one do. Aloes ; and one 

 Pyrethrum. Circles b, centres Agave A.mericana 

 var., Sedum micranthum, Rochea falcata, and 

 Pyretlu'um. Circles c, specimens of Cotyledon 



Fis. 14. 



