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GARDENING. 



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NEW ROaE BELLE SIEBRECHT. 



scented roses arc verj- appropriate, in fact 

 many people plant a fresh bed of tlieni 

 every spring as they do a new bed of 

 geraniums or heliotrope, setting out 

 young plants. They grow and bloom all 

 summer. If you care to save them over 

 winter bend them down fiat on the ground, 

 keeping them there with wooden ])egs or 

 a yard or two of chicken wire netting, 

 and over that lay sods close together 

 grass side down, and two sods deep. 

 This will keep them in good shape. 

 Should the winter be very severe some 

 leaves, litter or coal ashes heaped over 

 the sods will make al safer. If you 

 haven't got sods common loam will do. 

 Wouldn't leaves or litter, which are the 

 sovereign winter mulching material, be 

 lietter than common earth? No, not at 

 all, and there is no means of convincing 

 you of the truth of this as to give it a 

 trial. But if you want to fill the rose bed 

 with spring blooming bu'bous plants you 

 will have to lift the roses and plant them 

 in pots or boxes and winter tlicm in a 

 cold frame, pit or cellar. You can plant 

 them out again next year. The follow- 

 ing varieties do well with us: 



Countess Riza du Pare— Bright coppery 

 rose shaded crimson, fine. 



Mme. Joseph Schwartz— Light salmon 

 rose changing to creamy. 



Papa (5ontier — carmine crimson, fine, 

 free-blooming. 



Safrano — saflVon yellow, beautiful in the 

 bud; an old and deserving favorite. 



The Bride— A lovely white rose, good in 

 the flower garden or greenhouse. 



The Queen— white, large, double, very 

 fragrant. 



EvERBi.ooMiNG Beddino R()Si:s are 

 something many want to know .-djout. 



In the south where the teas and Noisettes 

 and Bourbons are all hardy, some roses 

 are in bloom most all the time. In the 

 north we should protect the roses in win- 

 ter by laying them down and covering 

 them with earth, or a heavy mulch of 

 sedge or litter, or it may be lift them and 

 plant them in pots or boxes of moist 

 earth and keep them over winter in a cel- 

 lar or pit, but at rest. An excellent half 

 dozen for prolonged blooming in summer 

 are Clothilde Soupert, white, shaded with 

 rose in the center; Etoile de Lyon, sulphur 

 yellow; Hermosa. pink; Marie Guillot, 

 white tinted with lemon; Meteor, crim- 

 son, and Souvenir de la Malmaison, flesh 

 color. 



Shrubbery Roses.— For planting in a 

 mass as one would a bed of shrubs and so 

 that we may leave them alone without 

 cultivation, if need be, orpruningwehave 

 nothing to equa' the Japanese rugosa 

 roses, both the red and white varieties. 

 Their foliage is of the richest kind and 

 seems to be free from insect and fungus 

 pests, and the flowers bloom early and 

 are delightfully fragrant. They also 

 bloom a little during summer, and in fall 

 they are brightened by a crop of big 

 orange heps. Don't forget to plant a 

 clump of Sweet Briar. As a rose its blos- 

 soms amount to nothing, but the delight- 

 ful fragrance of the young leaves and 

 growths, wafted inthe atmosphere morn- 

 ing and evening is exceedingly grateful. 



Among Moss Roses, Glory of Mosses 

 and Princess Adelaide do very well here. 

 They don't seem to be as popular as they 

 used to be yi-.ii^ iL ", -lill ilicre is a fas- 

 cination abiMii \ bud that all 

 the glories (il . I Im : i;, I i iii;^. or Roths- 

 child remonlnni c-r . nm. n displace. 



New Jersey. Kivkkto.v. 



ROSE BBLLB SIEBRECHT. 



This is a new and beautiful rose, and 

 one of the sensation plant novelties of the 

 year. It was raised in England some 

 years ago, where (at Chester) under the 

 name of Mrs. W.J. Grant, it received the 

 highest award possible to a rose, namely, 

 the National Rose Society's gold medal; 

 anil ,ilso several first-class certificates at 

 \ M 1 ;. -MX . iilu 1 . .liibitions in the country, 

 Tl, l;..l' :■ 1. of the rose was then 

 1, , i w 1 s. Siebreeht & Wadley, 



IIm:! !-. \.,\ ['<. I liclle, N. Y., and brought 

 t(i tliis eouiilry, and since then it has 

 l)ecn held and propagated by them alone 

 till this season, when they are offering it 

 for sale. As they owned, the complete 

 stock of the rose they have changed its 

 name to Belle Siebreeht. 



Although we have never seen it grow- 

 ing we have had the pleasure of examin- 

 ing the flowerson two or three occasions, 

 for instance, some months ago at the din- 

 ner given by some of his florist friends to 

 Dean Hole in New York, when a va.se of 

 splendid blossoms of this rose graced the 

 table; at a chrysanthemum c xhibition in 

 New York; and a week or two ago when 

 the owners sent us a box of these lovely 

 1 OSes. The flowers were very fine, large, 

 full, long in the bud, glowing rich pink, 

 rind powerfully fragrant, and they lasted 

 well, retaining their fragrance to a re- 

 markable degree. The stems were stout 

 and sturdy, and the foliage clean, bright 

 and leathery. 



It is a seedling of La France crossed 

 with Lady Mary Fitzwilliam. 



We asked Messrs. Siebreeht & Wadlej- 

 for a photograph of the rose, and they 

 sent us the one from which we had the 

 illustration herewith given engraved. 

 But as compared with the blossoms sent 

 us it in no way equals them in merit. 



ROSES-WOOD flSHES-MlLDEW. 



I find using wood ashes as a top dress- 

 ing, quite freelj', cures and prevents mil- 

 dew on my roses. My "Her Majesty" 

 was mildewed all over; thebigthorns were 

 as velvet with it. I took a cutting from 

 the bush and grew it with plenty of ashes 

 as top dressing (after it became well 

 established), then I raised a cutting from 

 that plant, and I have a Majesty S feet 

 tall, perfectly straight and symmetrical, 

 and absolutely free from mildew. The 

 original plant I had destroyed, as the 

 mildew seemed incurable. I fancied the 

 constitution of therose hadbeenimpaired 

 by excessive propagation, and that my 

 tonic at the roots and new cuttings had 

 produced for us a healthy bush. The 

 flowers are perfection. I have good suc- 

 cess with all roses, in curing mildew with 

 the wood ashes. Gardening is a house- 

 hold treasure. Mrs. A. C. B. 



Havwards, Ala. Co., Cal. 



Roses. — Now that the plants have l>e- 

 gun to grow it is easy to notice how far 

 the bushes have been hurt by the winter. 

 Prune them back to good sound wood 

 and healthy eyes. In the case of climbing 

 roses cut out all of the dead or enfeebled 

 shoots, with healthy roots and sound 

 young wood a rapid growth is most sure 

 to follow. 



Orchids. 



ORCfllDS. 



No time should be lost in getting j'our 

 orchids in condition for the growing sea- 

 son. Ivpiphytal orchids, such as cat- 



