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GARDENING. 



July /, 



strength and glory, and have become a 

 joy to the people. And they are well 

 taken rare of. 



In the spring time the beds are mulched 

 all over three or fourinches deep with the 

 grass mowings from the lawns, and which 

 is left on all summer. This is to keep the 

 ground cool and moist. 



In the fall the beds are cleaned up. And 

 Ijelore hard frost setsinthe roses are bent 

 down to the ground and pegged there in 

 place with wire hoops, and then covered 

 over with a foot deep of dry tree leaves, 

 over which is spread about 3 or 4 inches 

 deep of old grass mowings. The mowings 

 keep the leaves in place and dry, for they 

 form a cake or coating over the leaves 

 that sheds water readily. The rose 

 bushes survive the winter under this cover- 

 ing without the least injury. 



Mr. Leutschg, the gardener in charge, 

 gives the following list of roses as being 

 the ones which have, after being grown 

 there for three years, behaved the best 

 and gave the most satisfaction: 



THF BEST TWELVE VARIETIES. 



Alfred Colomb. 

 Anne de Diesbach. 

 Baroness Rothschild. 

 EarlofDufiferin. 

 Gen. Jacqueminot. 

 Jeannie Dickson. 

 Magna Charta. 

 Margaret Dickson. 

 Marshall P. Wilder. 

 Merveille de Lyon. 

 . Mrs. John Laing. 

 Paul Neyron. 



FO^ A FURTHER SELECTION ADD 



Anna Alexieff. 



Auguste Mie. 



Belle dejardin. 



Belle de Normandie. 



Caroline d' Arden. 



Coupe d' Hebe. 



Duchesse de Caylus. 



Duchess of Albany. 



Francois Levet. 



Gloire de Lyon. 



G. M. Maurande. 



John Hopper. 



Jules Margottin. 



LaReine. 



La France. 



Louis Van Houtte. 



Madame Georges Bruant, 



Madame Plantier. 



Mrs. Bosanquet. 



Pajonia. 



Perfection des Blanches. 



Rosa rugosa. 



When the photographs were taken 

 Anne de Diesbach was the handsomest 

 rose of the lot, and General Jacqueminot 

 the most brilliant Merveille de Lyon, 

 Gloire de Lyon and Paul Neyron were 

 fine, and as a crimson Marshall P Wilder 

 was exceptionally good. Neither Mar- 

 garet Dickson nor Jeannie Dickson were 

 as good as they were a year ago. 

 Madame Georges Bruant, the hybrid of 

 rugosa, was very satisfactory and so was 

 Madame Plantier. 



NOTES ON ROSE&. 



In Central New Jersey the dog rose of 

 the English hedge rows has naturalized 

 itself more freely than in any other sec- 

 tion of the country with which I am 

 familiar. The sweetbriar (R. ruhiginosn ) 

 is also quite common along the Delaware 

 and Raritan Valleys, and sparingly at 

 intermediate points. The Cherokee rose 

 [R. la:vigata) is another exotic species 

 which manages to live in these parts, and 

 in favorable positions on wall or fences 

 blooms full— later than most other single 



roses. There are very old plants of it m 

 the city of Trenton which I fancy have 

 been carried around and propagated from 

 plants brought north during the war. 

 The oldest plant I know of was for years 

 in a cemetery, and was thence transferred 

 to a bleak place, where although it has 

 got more or less injured nearly every 

 winter, it is still in good health The peo- 

 ple here persist in calling it the magnolia 

 rose, and notCherokee. The Japan Rosa 

 rugosa in several varieties is becoming 

 common, and here as everywhere it is 

 quite satisfactory. 



Except three or four wild forms the only 

 other species seen is the prairie rose {R. 

 setigera) which has been collected at 

 points in Hunterdon County, I under- 

 stand, I have not seen it but fancy it must 

 have been throv/n out of some garden, or 

 perhaps collected on some old garden site. 

 I don't see why people want to keep call- 

 ing this rose rubritolia [They shouldn't, 

 for the true R. rubritolia is a very distinct 

 species from it. — Ed.] 



The lutea roses (Persian and Harrison's 

 vellow) are frequently seen in gardens 

 and are among the earliest to bloom. 

 The Burnet or Scotch roses are often met 

 with in several varieties, and in superb 

 health. Only yesterday (June 18) I saw 

 plants in full bloom which were very 

 beautiful indeed. The double flowered 

 prairie roses are in fine order just now, 

 but the bulk of the hybrid reraontants 

 are past. 



DiNSMORE ROSE— Pocahontas — The 

 oldest local rosarian at this point is Mr. 

 George Wainwright, a pupil of the late 

 Robert Buist, and the raiser of a rose 

 which has certainly the merit of being a 

 true perpetual, and a good rose in color. 

 The flowers come imperfect sometimes in 

 cool weather, but there are such shoals of 

 them from June till frost, that the better 

 plan is to pick the "bull-head" buds olT 

 and relieve the little plants. Mr. Wain- 

 wright's name for this rose was Pocahon- 

 tas, but some one changed it and now it 

 is called Dinsmore. The same liberty was 

 taken with what is now known as Crim- 

 son Rambler; its first and proper name is 

 Engineer. 



In this part of New Jersey some of the 

 English workmen in the potteri s give a 

 better display of gardenii.g taste do their 

 employers. But one of the most promi- 

 nent rose amateurs here is a very popular 

 and much respected citizen, Councillor G. 

 D. W. Vroom. He has a fine lot of the 

 older hardy H. Ps. General Perrine also 

 collected a'large number of fine varieties 

 of ros s during his lifetime, and these aie 

 still cherished by his daughter, Mrs Bell. 

 1 have been over the following list of 

 hardy varieties of hybrids with Mr. 

 Wainwright and he agrees with me that 

 it is hard to beat for this s ction of the 

 country. All do very well if planted on 

 somewhat heavy and well fertilized soils. 

 The soils are ver\' variable here as you 

 know, and some of the sands would be 

 helped for rose culture if they received a 

 good dressing of clay-land sod and 

 manure, composted for a year before 

 using. For such soils you may make the 

 compost nearly half manure. 



CRIMSON SHADES. 



Fisher Holmes, brilliant crimson (if 

 true). 



General Jacciueminot, glowing crimson. 



Prince Arthur, deep crimson. 



Souvenir de William Wood, very dark 

 crimson. 



Gloire de Margottin, brilliant scarlet. 



Dinsmore (all summer), scarlet crimson 



Baron de Bonstetten, crimson maroon. 



Jean Liabaud, crimson maroon. 



Duke of Edinburgh, brilliant crimson. 



Lady Helen Stewart, crimson scarlet. 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, velvety crim- 

 son. 

 Louis Van Houtte, crimson maroon. 



FLESH AND ROSE PINKS. 



Mrs. John Laing, soft pink, very fine. 



Anne de Diesbach, soft carmine. 



Magna Charta, pink suffused with car- 

 mine. 



John Hopper, bright rose. 



Mme. Gabriel Luizet, pink. 



Countess of Oxford, carmine red. 



Paul Neyron, deep rose. 



Marchioness of DufTerin, rosy pink. 



Captain Christy, flesh color. 



Merveille de Lyon, white shaded with 

 rose. 



Baroness Rothschild, pale pink. 



Queen of Queens (all summer) pink with 

 blush edges. 



It is extremely difficult to limit the 

 number of pink roses, and to give a list 

 of twice as many would be easy. 



WHITE OR WHITE AND BLUSH. 



Coquette des Alpes, white tinged blush. 



Coquette des Blanches, white faintly 

 tinged blush. 



Mme. Plantier, white, 



Boule de Neige, white, small. 



Mabel Morrison, flesh white. 



Margaret Dickson (white tinged flesh 

 color in center) is as yet insufficiently 

 tested. [Does very well at Dosoris, only 

 it is not a free bloomer.— Ed.] 



HARDY CLIMBINO ROSES. 



Reine Marie Henrietteis reported hardy 

 at this point, but although I have 

 watched for it. I have not met with it. 



Boursault, crimson red, not full double. 



Gem of the Prairies, rosy red. 



Queen of the Prairies, rosy red. 



Baltimore Belle, pale blush. 



Seven Sisters or Greville, blush. 



Gloire de Dijon, mixture of rose, salmon 

 and vellow, and such teas as Isabella 

 Sprunt are all seen on walls, etc., and are 

 hardy in about the order named. 



MOSS ROSES. 



Mr. Wainwright regards the old Eng- 

 lish Moss, rose color, as still the best, 

 and Luxembourg, dark crimson. White 

 Bath, white and Princess Adelaide, pale 

 rose, as being as good as any for variety. 



Several old roses are seen at this 

 point in old gardens. The one most 

 enquired for and most difficult to find is 

 the good old "York and Lancaster" 

 (union stripes of red and white). [It is 

 perfectly hardy and now, June 20, in 

 fine bloom at Dosoris. Still as it is only 

 semi-double, the average visitor doesn't 

 enthuse much over it.— Ed.] You see an 

 old rose like this with its pretty legends 

 and sweet Damask perfume, has a value 

 quite in contrast to that of the lists I 

 have given above. 



Tender roses.— Several of these get 

 over the winter in our city yards with 

 good sun to ripen them and buildings to 

 shelter them quite as well as at Balti- 

 more I think. Among the most desirable 

 kinds to grow are the following. 



Agrippina, crimson. 



Papa Gontier, rose and crimson. 



Meteor, dark velvety crimson. 



Clothilde Soupert, white, shaded with 

 rose in center [Seems to be quite hardy 

 at Dosoris.— Ed.] 



Duchess of .\lbany, deep pink. 



Duchesse de Brabant, light carmine 



Souv. de la Malmaison, flesh color. 



Hermosa, bright rose. 



Souv. d'un Ami, rose tinged with sal- 

 La France, silverv rose. 



The Bride, white. 



Kaiserin A. Victoria, creamy white. 



