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THE GABDENEE'S MONTHLY 



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much better than four 1^ ones. Tliis is only sug- 

 gested; I have only written as I have it in ope- 

 ration. I hope some one will give you something 

 better before next winter for heating small 

 houses. 



PEERLESS ROSE. 



BY E. HOLLY, HUDSON, N. Y. 



Or, as most catalogues have it, Bourbon Rose 

 Peerless. I also notice it under the head of 

 Ever Blooming Rose. I do not wish to sny any- 

 thing against the rose, having purchased a half 

 dozen plants the first season they came out, and 

 have grown them ever since in pots and in the 

 open ground; have had plants eight feet high, 

 with canes an inch through or more, covered 

 with hundreds of clusters of beautiful blossoms 

 in June. I have cut the plants back and tried 

 them in diflei ent ways, and have never seen a 

 rose on any of them, except the spring bloom on 

 them in pots and tlie June blossom on those in 

 the open ground. If it had been called a Hybrid 

 Perpetual I would not have been rlisappointed. 1 

 think the general mass of peoj-Je who grow roses 

 expect a Bourbon Rose to be one which gives 

 more or less blo.ssoms through the season and a 

 fine bloom in the fall. Peerless with me grows 

 more like Prairie Queen than any rose I grow — 

 not as tall growing, but the same strong, thorny 

 wood as the Prairie Queen. I think tbis rose 

 should have been called a Hybrid Climbing June 

 Rose. I hope others will give their experience 

 with this rose in the Gardener's Monthly, and 

 have this rose pushed into its proper jjlace if it 

 is not there at present. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



EuPATORiUM LiGUSTRiNUM. — This is the correct 

 name of the white sweet-scented Eiipatorium 

 now becoming so popular for winter cut flowers. 

 It has eight or more names given to it errone- 

 ously. 



The RiCHARniA (Calla) ^thiopica, which 

 our people have learned to call " Calla Lily " 

 and " Easter Lily," goes by the name of "Trum- 

 pet Lily " in England. 



Preserving Cut Frx>WERS.— If we fill a tum- 

 bler with water, and invert it, the water remains 



therein. A correspondent of the Florist or Po?7i- 

 ologist has taken advantage of this fact to get 

 bouquets of flowers under water in bell glasses, 

 and be says if exposed to light in this condition 

 the flowers keep perfect a wonderfully long time. 



Name of Plant. — Mrs. E. J. B., St. Louis, Mo. 

 — Bryophyllum calycinum. 



Plant-selling at Amherst College. — Wo 

 find the following in the Detroit Farmer: "We 

 recently vi-sited the Durfee Plant House at Am- 

 herst, established by a fund given the Agricul- 

 tural College by Dr. Nathan Durfoo, of Fall 

 River. We found it under the charge of Prof. S. 

 T. M:iynard, a graduate of that college, who re- 

 ports that the house now contains between seven 

 and eight thousand plants of fifteen lunidred 

 S])ecies ami varieties. Twenty thousand bedding 

 plants were propagated the last season. The 

 sales of plants and flowers during the j'car 

 amounted to $758.32, while about a third of the 

 grapes in the vineyard were sold for $265.16, the 

 balnncc having been destroyed by frost. The 

 nursery at the college now contains more than 

 six thousand fruit and < i.iamental trees, in- 

 cluding a large numl)er of species. The vine- 

 yard contains about 2,000 vines of 32 different 

 sorts. 



The Plant House at the Agricultural 

 College. — The plant house at the Agricultural 

 College at Lansing is a success, an honor to the 

 institution and to the State. But it is just in its 

 infancy and should be extended. We strongly 

 recommend that this department be placed on 

 a paying basis. The experiment to be tested is 

 whether the growing of i)lants will pay. This is 

 a narrow, low and selfish view of the case, but it 

 is a le.sson to be taught. Will it pay? Will 

 flowers pay in dollars and cents? Not socially, 

 intellectually, morally, fcsthetically or hygieni- 

 cally? Will they pay like potatoes, corn, pigs 

 or eggs? There are plenty of people in Michigan 

 that will favor the plant house just as soon as 

 they sec the shinplasters and greenbacks grow- 

 ing out of them. — Michigan Farmer. 



Royal Bouquets. — Mr. Wills, of the Royal 

 Exotic Nursery, Onslow Crescent, had the honor 

 of receiving the commands of H. R. H., the 

 Duke of Edinburgh, for the Floral decoration of 

 the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Box, on 

 the occasion of the recent State concert there, 

 Mr. Wills also supplied the bouquets presented 

 to Her Majesty, H. R H. the Princess of Wales, 



