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THE GARDENERS MONTHLY 



[April, 



weather, than from the intense cold, as the 

 above-mentioned plants all thrive when planted 

 either on the south-east side of hills, or any- 

 where under shelter within two or three hun- 

 dred feet from the water; hut as soon as ever 

 they get tall enough for the north-west blasts 

 to strike them, down they go." 



[It is the salt in the vapor, blown into the 

 plants by the keen sea-breezes, as much as 

 the wind itself, which does the damage. The 

 following list of plants is of such as do not mind 

 a salt atmosphere so much as others, and we 

 should select from it, for experiment, in situa- 

 tions suggested : 



Acer campestre, Amorpha fruticosa. 



Ailanthus glandulosa, Azalea viscosa, 



Aliius glutiiiosa, Berberis vulgaris, 



Alnus maritiiiia, 

 Aralia spinosa, 

 Amelanohier botryapium, 

 Betula popullfolia, 

 Catalpa bignonioides, 

 Ccltis oocidentalis, 

 Nyssa multlflora, 

 Populus alba, 



" angulata, 



" monilifcra, 

 Prunus Americana, 



" chicasa, 

 Quercus nigra, 



" obtusiloba, 



" tinctoria, 

 Sallx alba, 



" Russeliana, 

 " vitellina, 

 Tamarisk Africaua, 

 " Indica, 

 " tetandra, 



Carragana arborescena 

 Cephalanthus occidentalis. 

 Chionantlius Virginica, 

 Clethra alnifolia, 

 Fothergilla alnifolia, 

 Itea Virginica, 

 Myrica cerifera, 

 Prinos verticillata, 



" arliutifolia, 



" floribunda, 

 Viburnum nudum, 



" prunlfolium, 



Andromeda calyculata, 

 Arctostaphylos uva-Hrsa, 

 Kalmia angustifolia, 

 Leiophyllum buxifoUum, 

 Pinus inops, 



" muglio, 

 Prinos glaber. 

 Yucca fllamentosa. 



—Ed. G. M.l 



Greenhouse and House Gardening. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



THE ROSE-CROWINC CRAZE. 



BY PETER HENDERSON. 



The readers of the Gardener's Monthly in 

 remote rural districts are unconscious of the 

 extent to which the culture of roses is extending 

 in and around our large cities. In consequence 

 of the extraordinary prices obtained for rosebuds 

 during the past two or three years, not only have 

 the regular tiorists used their large profits in 

 extending their greenhouse structures for that 

 purpose, but the fabulous reports of the profits 

 of rose-growing has excited the cupidity of many 

 capitalists in the vicinity of New York, Boston 

 and Chicago, and in all probability in the other 

 large cities of the Union. These men have an 

 abundance of means, and begin on a scale usu- 

 ally at which the ordinary florist, who had to 

 climb his way up, ends; so that we have already 

 in the vicinity of New York at least a dozen 

 establishments for the forcing of rosebuds in 

 winter, owned by men who count their capital 

 by millions. These gentlemen, of course, know 

 nothing practically about the business, relying 

 altogether upon their gardeners for success ; — 

 for who ever heard of a millionaire florist? 



Whether they do succeed or not in making a 

 profit of a few thousand, dollars a year is not 

 vital to men who count their income by the 

 hundred thousand ; yet it is curious with what 

 interest the rise or fall of a few cents in the rose 

 market is regarded even by them. New Jersey 

 has more than her quota of these millionaire 

 fl&rists. Already we have four in Madison, one 

 in Summit and two in Orange, New Jersey, and 

 it is said that there is as much interest mani- 

 fested by them in the prices at which, in the 

 technical slang of the flower-shops, "Cooks," 

 "Jacks," "Mermets" and "Perles" are quoted 

 in Broadway, as is evinced in Wall Street in 

 " Wabash," " Lake Shore," "Erie" or " Central." 

 It is true that one, at least, of these gentlemen 

 gives all the profits that accrue from his roses 

 to charitable purposes; but it is feared that he 

 has few imitators among his compeers in this 

 particular ; for the motive is the same as in all 

 other investments— to get the largest profit po8« 

 sible from the smallest amount of money in- 

 volved. A wholesale dry goods merchant, or a 

 manufiicturer, doing a business of a million dol- 

 lars a year, is amply paid by a net profit of five 

 percent.; but Avhen he is given to understand 

 that some illiterate digger of the soil, by an in- 

 vestment in rose-growing of $10,000, gets a net 



