1885. 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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flowers per season, which adds grace and beauty 

 wholly its own to any vase of cut flowers. A. 

 Atamasco rosea exactly like in shape and size is a 

 fit companion to A. Atamasco. 



I, a native of the fair South-land ; loving it with 

 eager impetuosity ; thank the kind Editor of the 

 Gardeners' Monthly for his true praise of this 

 beauteous country, only telling truthfully of the 

 grand capabilities (only partially developed) 

 of this favored portion of the Union ; and that 

 others reading may be induced to verify his state- 

 ments. Whilst with you of the cold North, frost 

 king holds high carnival, we gather flowers the 

 whole year; Violets from under the December 

 snows (when we have that rare thing, a snow), 

 Christmas blooming Lonicera, at Christmas tide ; 

 Narcissus and Roman Hyacinths in early Febru- 

 ary, followed in grand succession by myriads in 

 March, April and May. Our gardens we begin 

 always in February, and last spring our Narcissus 

 were in flower in open border when forced ones 

 were commanding twenty-five cents per stem in 

 New York. Come and see for yourselves. 



Spartanburg, S. C. 



the latter in remontant qualities. La Rosarie and 

 Abel Carriere are also quite similar, very dark, 

 but with quite small petals, and not as good form 

 as some of the others. Jean Soupert is the darkest 

 rose among them, and of most beautiful form, 

 but such a shy bloomer that I place it low on the 

 list. Xavier Olibo is a very fragrant, beautiful 

 rose, but not full, and must be watched closely to 

 get one in perfection. Pierre Notting is strong, 

 vigorous, and full of fragrance, but such a muddy 

 tint of purple as to be undesirable. All the above 

 roses grow darker as they wither and fade in the 

 sunshine, a peculiarity which the crimson roses do 

 not possess. Among the darkest crimson roses, 

 Fisher Holmes, Horace Vernet and Charles Le- 

 febvre, under high cultivation sometimes have a 

 beautiful dark velvety shade, but in fading they 

 get lighter instead of darker. There are many 

 among the crimson roses darker and more beauti- 

 ful than Gen. Jacqueminot, whose principal merit 

 for outside blooming is, the great freedom and 

 continuity of bloom. Auburn, N. V., July i6th. 



DARK HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 



BY D. M. DUNNING. 



Among the hybrid perpetual roses none attract 

 so much attention in my garden as the very dark 

 ones. A great many people have an idea that 

 Gen. Jacquemmot is about the only dark one 

 grown. And they almost invariably exclaim 

 when approaching a bed of dark roses : " I sup- 

 pose these are Jacqueminots," when the fact isthat 

 the Jacqueminot as compared to our finest dark 

 roses, is not a dark rose at all, but simply a red 

 rose, and people are sadly disappointed when the 

 celebrated General is pointed out to them. A few 

 mornings since I gathered specimens of about a 

 dozen varieties of the dark roses, and would ar- 

 range them as follows in the order of their general 

 merit: Louis Van Houtte, Jean Liabaud, Baronne 

 de Bonstetten, Prince Camille de Rohan, La 

 Rosarie, Jean Soupert, Abel Carriere, Xavier 

 Olibo, Pierre Notting. 



Louis Van Houtte, combining great fragrance, 

 beauty of form and freedom of bloom, I place first, 

 although it is not as dark as several of the others. 

 Jean Liabaud is almost the darkest one among 

 them, and has great vigor and blooms freely but 

 not continuously. Bonstetten and Prince Camille 

 are quite similar with me, both very dark and of 

 beautiful form, the former excelling in vigor and 



COTTAGE GARDENING AT UPLAND, 

 DELAWARE CO., PA. 



BY MR. J. WOODING. 



This has been a peculiar and in some respects a 

 discouraging season for gardening operations in 

 this section. The early potatoes are very poor, 

 earlv sweet corn nearly a failure, Lima bean 

 plants ornamented with imitation pods, tomatoes 

 sun-scalded and half rotten owing to the exces- 

 sive drouth the eirly part of the season. .'\s mis- 

 ery loves company, I started to visit some friends 

 near Upland, Delaware county, about two miles 

 from Chester. It gives me pleasure to speak of 

 this place as one of the prettiest, cleanest, neatest, 

 and best laid out town of the size I have ever 

 seen in this country. The population, 1 under- 

 stand, is about two thousand, mostly importations 

 from England. Every cottage has a flower and 

 vegetable garden attached. The flowers in the 

 front of some of the cottages were a mass of 

 bloom and in great variety, including the inevita- 

 ble sunflower nodding its heads in the direction of 

 its namesake. Some of the people cultivate their 

 plants in pots, boxes, tubs, etc., which decorate 

 the window sills of the houses. Others have an 

 artistic taste for gardening. I noticed one cottage 

 where the Madeira vine with its fine glossy leaves 

 and deliciously fragrant, nearly white flowers, and 

 4)rofusion of bloom, was trained on wires and run 

 1 up to a tree in three different directions in an hori- 



