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amongst tea roses ; it lacks in one particular, 



being almost scentless. 



[Is this not Cheshunt — not "Chestnut" Hy- 

 brid?— Ed. G. M.J 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Wild Roses.— While we cannot ask any one 

 to love less the beautiful roses of refined culture, 

 we ought not to forget 

 th3 glorious charms 

 of the wild rose. They 

 make good sized 

 bushes as ordinary 

 shrubs do, and are 

 covered often by 

 thousands of flowers, 

 giving out a perfume 

 which even the pets 

 of the florist might 

 envy. But their great- 

 est merit consists in 

 the beautiful red 

 "haws" or "hips," as 

 the fruit is popularly 

 called, which, if the 

 frost is not severe, 

 give the bushes beau- 

 ty till near Christmas 

 time. 



There are many of 

 these wild roses in 

 Europe and Asia, as 

 well as in our own 

 part of the world, 

 which are slowly find- 

 ing their way into 

 our gardens on this 

 account. One of the 

 most recent of these 

 introductions of old 

 wild things is the rose 

 we now illustrate, 

 Rosa villosa, a na- 

 tive of Northern Europe and Asia, and of which 

 we believe a few plants have been introduced 

 by Mr. Benz, of Long Island, and in a year or 

 so may be freely in the market. It seems to 

 have been first introduced into European gar- 

 dens by Mr. Schultheis, of Steinfurth, in Ger- 

 many, and we hope other wild species may be 

 introduced by others. 



Removing Large Trees.— It is said that Col. 



ROSA VILLOSA. 



Colt removed some elm trees four feet in diame- 

 ter, and at a cost of $1,000 per tree. Do any of 

 our readers know anything of this, and what 

 came of the experiment? Perhaps ten years 

 ago the editor visited these gardens, but had not 

 this exploit brought to his attention. 



Improvement at White Sulphur Springs. — 

 The writer had to express his surprise in these 

 pages, after a visit to this celebrated Virginia 

 summer resort in 

 1879, that in so cul- 

 tured a place gardert- 

 ing should be so 

 wholly ignored. It is 

 a pleasure now to 

 note that the man- 

 agement has become 

 alive to the delin- 

 quency, and that the 

 grounds are to be 

 brought up to the flor- 

 al demands of the age. 



The California 

 Mammoth Tree in 

 Europe. — Thousands 

 have been tried in 

 the Eastern United 

 States and failed. 

 They die from a 

 species of fungus, 

 which takes the old- 

 est leaves first, and 

 the branches die from 

 below upwards dur- 

 ing the summer sea- 

 son. The impression 

 has been that they 

 thrive well in Europe. 

 With this belief the 

 editor of this maga- 

 zine was surprised to 

 find no good speci- 

 mens when on his 

 brief visit there a few years ago. The best were 

 in the acclimitization gardens near Paris, and in 

 the Royal Gardens at Osborne, in England. But 

 even here they were failing. The respective 

 gardeners attributed it to the "unfavorable soil 

 at the roots," but it was evidently the work of 

 the same old fungus. Of course the compara- 

 tively few places the editor had the chance to 

 visit in so short a time, would not warrant a 



