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THE GARDENER'S MONTHL Y 



{October, 



Monthly, where they will receive compassion- 

 ate attention. 



5. Almost all the white Zonale Geraniums 

 turn pinkish in fading. There is no horticultural 

 difference between a Geranium and a Pelargo- 

 nium. — Ed. G. M.] 



Ameeican Trees in Boston. — A corre- 

 spondent writes : "In regard to what you say 

 about foreign trees. I am quite certain that less 

 than ten per cent, of the stock planted m this 

 vicinity is foreign. As a rule, our American 

 trees are cheaper and better. There is a decided 

 change in this respect within a few years." 



[Of course the writer of the Boston letter had 

 reference to the general run of trees now grow- 

 ing up, and not those which have been planted 

 within the last few years, the effects of which 

 can hardly yet be seen. It is pleasant to know 

 that there is now this decided change. — Ed. G. M.] 



Purchasing Roses.— Mrs. E., Melrose, Mass., 

 writes: "Will you please inform me, through 

 the Monthly, as to the best time to buy young 

 Hybrid Perpetual roses — Fall or Spring? And 

 if not set out till Spring, will they flower at all 

 the first year ? I am, of course, in a great hurry 

 for results — amateurs always are — particularly 

 since I saw the magnificent display of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society's Exhibition 

 last year." 



[If strong two-year plants can be had — that is 

 to say, plants rooted last winter and grown in 

 the open ground all summer — such as Rose 

 plants used to be before severe competition in 

 low prices led to plants of but a few months old 

 being regarded as good commercial articles. It 

 would be well to secure them this Fall, and 

 bury slightly with earth till Spring. If then 

 pruned a little and planted they will make a 

 very fine show the next year. But if "strong 

 plants," at about ten or fifteen cents each, be 

 understood, it will be best to wait till Spring ; 

 and even then Hybrid perpetuals do not make 

 much show the first year, though the small Tea 

 Roses usually do well in a few months. — Ed. 

 G. M.] 



Tuberose Seed.— C. D. F., Gloucester, X. J., 

 says: "Will you please let me know if single 

 Tuberoses can be made to bear seed, and by 

 what process?" 



[The pollen of the Tuberose does not readily 

 find its way to the stigma without artificial aid. 



If you apply it the flowers will seed freely. — 

 Ed. G. M.] ' 



Two Good Bedding Tea Roses. — Mrs. R. 

 B. E., Melrose, Mass., writes: "I have tried 

 two of the newer tea roses this summer — Marie 

 Guillot and Comtesse Riza de Pare — and find 

 them very much superior to the generality of tea 

 roses for bedding purposes. They are extremely 

 vigorous in growth, especially the latter, and 

 most profuse in bloom. Marie Guillot is a rich 

 creamy white, and Comtesse Riza de Pare is a 

 peculiar shade of salmon-rose, tinted with cop- 

 per. It is full, globular in form, and one of the 

 most satisfactory roses, both in habit and flower, 

 that I have ever used." 



Memorial Trees. — S. P. B., near Wilming- 

 ton, Del., writes : " If any one wishes to be borne 

 in pleasant remembrance, let him present anoth- 

 er with some plants — something that will live 

 and grow. Many years since I received from 

 Thomas Meehan, though I was but a casual ac- 

 quaintance, a bundle of plants, all of which, 

 with one exception, I believe are living, and 

 help to adorn my pleasant home. Among them 

 was a Japan Varnish tree (I know there is a 

 new name for it, but do not remember it), and 

 often when it has been in its great beauty, as it 

 is now, I have felt I ought to write to thee and 

 thank thee for having sent them to me. The 

 thanks have been long coming, but there is an 

 old saying — 'better late than never.' " 



[Uncertain whether this is a private letter or 

 for publication, we give the latter the benefit of 

 the doubt for the lesson it may bring. It was 

 about twenty years ago the writer of this was 

 wandering through Delaware, collecting wild 

 plants — botanizing — when he came on a pretty 

 country garden on the Brandy wine, and stopped 

 to admire some of the cultivated beauties. A 

 conversation ensued with the good lady tending 

 the flowers, and she finding out who the plant 

 collector was, invited him to stop and take din- 

 ner with the family. A pleasant hour was spent, 

 and the writer went on his way. The following 

 Fall he sent a small plant of Kolreuteria pani- 

 culata as a slight acknowledgment of the kind- 

 ness shown him. The writer of this has never 

 been over that ground since, but it is pleasant 

 to know, after twenty years have passed, that 

 the little tree has kept him in the lady's remem- 

 brance ; and it is a good point in favor of what 

 has been often urged in our columns, namely, 

 the great pleasure which the planting of memo- 

 rial trees may possibly give. — Ed. G. M.] 



