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large, full, fine shape ; very light fleshy pink. 

 Very fine in bud. 



Tea, Claudius Level (Level). — Very vigorous, 

 flowers large ; carmine rose, edged purple, centre 

 slightly yellowish. First-rate. 



Tea, Marguerite Ramet (Level). — Vigorous, 

 flowers large, full, fine shape ; very fine vivid 

 rose ; centre lighter, slightly shaded, light car- 

 mine. Very fine bloomer. 



Hybrid Perpetual, Rosieriste C4att7//j(Gonod). 

 — Flowers large, full globular; very fine shape; 

 bright light crimson ; free bloomer. 



H. P., Souvenir de Victor Hugo (Pernet). — 

 Vigorous ; flowers large, nearly full globular ; 

 light brilliant rose ; very fine bloomer. 



H. P., Clara Cochet (Lacharme). — Flowers 

 very large ; globular, full, very fine shape ; very 

 bright rose ; centre darker. Extra fine only in 

 dormant buds. 



Dwarf Perpetual, Poly ant ha Floribunda (Du- 

 breuil). — Flowers size of those of Anne Marie de 

 Montravel ; very full, large trusses ; abundant 

 bloomer; delicate rose, shade white; very hardy 

 and bushy. 



H. P., Polyantha Max: ^zw"'.?/- (Lacharme). — 

 Very vigorous, sarmentous. Flowers size of 

 those of H. Bon Hermosa, large for the species ; 

 bright dark cherry red, or vivid light crimson. Very 

 free bloomer. Splendid plant for an isolated 

 position, and has the advantage of throwing out 

 no suckers. Quite different from all the Poly- 

 antha. Monplaisir, Lyons, France. 



account for the fact that trees planted near gas 

 pipes in streets so often die. The enclosing of gas 

 pipes in wider tubes having openings to the air, 

 through which currents could be maintained by 

 artificial means, has been recommended as a 

 remedy." This is similar to my suggestion oft"ered 

 about enclosing the pipes in some kind of cement. 

 Openings could be left to the surface in the same 

 manner, by insertion in the cement of short 

 lengths of pipes. There is no doubt where the 

 soil has been once impregnated with the gas, it is 

 fatal to vegetation, and its renewal for a large 

 space around will be necessary to ensure success 

 after this precaution is taken ; and, perhaps, if your 

 complainant will remove as much of the soil as he 

 possibly can, and renew it, he may yet save his 

 trees. Sup't Gov't Grounds, Canada. 



INJURY TO ROOTS FROM COAL GAS. 

 BY N. ROBERTSON. 



Since sending you my experience with gas on 

 roots of trees, I have come across the following ar- 

 ticle in the Gardeners' Magazine, which some of 

 your readers may not see. It says : " Cuttings of 

 willows, the lower ends of which were placed in 

 flasks containing a little water and filled with coal 

 gas, developed only short roots, and the buds on 

 the upper part died shortly after unfolding in the 

 air. Of ten plants in pots, amongst the roots of 

 which coal gas was conducted through openings 

 in the bottom of the pots, seven died in four 

 months. To show that the plants were killed, not 

 by the direct action of the gas, but in consequence 

 of the poisoning of the soil, several were made with 

 earth through which coal gas had passed for two 

 or three hours daily for two and a half years. The 

 rootlets of seeds sown in this soil remained very 

 short and soon rotted. These results sufficiently 



SOUTHERN-GROWN ROSES. 



BY CHARLES HENDERSON. 



Mr. A. Oelschig, of Savannah, Ga., in the 

 November number of The Monthly, takes ex- 

 ception to some remarks I made at Cincinnati in 

 regard to Southern-grown roses. The remarks in 

 question, which were made in a private conver- 

 sation, and not to the Society, were simply a 

 relation of our experience with one thousand 

 plants which we received from Savannah in the 

 early part of December, 1884. They were all 

 Hybrid Perpetuals of the following kinds: Baroness 

 Rothschild, Magna Charta, John Hopper, Paul 

 Neron, Jules Morgottin, and several other similar 

 varieties. They were large, fine looking plants, 

 averaging three to four shoots each, which were 

 apparently fairly well ripened. We potted them, 

 and placed them in a cold sunken pit, alongside of 

 the same varieties of imported (English) stock, re- 

 ceived about the same time. The conditions 

 under which they were situated were thus exactly 

 the same, and they had a fair comparative test. 

 About Februnry 1st the Southern plants began to 

 turn black at the ends of the shoots, and the 

 blackening extended down the shoots to the crown 

 as the season advanced. Before we got through 

 fully one-half of the thousand plants proved a 

 total loss, and many of the others were injured. 

 Some few seemed all right. In the same frame, 

 and under precisely the same conditions, the 

 English stock wintered splendidly, and we did 

 not lose one plant in a hundred. There was no 

 mistake made in the handling of them, as we 

 have grown roses in those same pits with unvary- 

 ing success for the last ten years. One of our 



