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Maria Guillot, white tinged yellow 

 and the white Polyanthas. 



The kosk caterpillar is the worst 

 pest we have here, but some one of the 

 cheap arsenites used tor the purpose will 

 keep it down if applied in season. 



Trenton, N. J. James MacPhekson. 



CflflRMlNG, BUT UNCOMMON ROSES. 



While wo :;11 aihuit the beauty of the 

 hybrid remontant, tea, noisette and other 

 popular roses, and that they are indis- 

 pensable to our gardens, surely we ean 

 find room in our hearts and gardens for 

 some of the many lovely species and vari- 

 eties of roses outside of thoseelasses. The 

 following are unusually interesting and 

 beautiful: 



The Altai Mountain Rose (Kosa 

 gramlifJora, or as it is called now R. 

 spinosissima Altaica). — This is a very 

 beautiful and perfectly hardy species, 

 which flowers early and profusely. The 

 flowers are large, single and white. It is 

 a very beautiful garden rose. 



The Praikik Rose {Rosa setigera).—A 

 vigorous plant of neat habit, a profuse 

 bloomer and the flowers deep bright rose 

 and single. 



Williams' Double Yellow Sweet 

 Briar —It was raised by Williams of 

 Pitmaston. Its flowers are double yel- 

 low in the way of Harn'sonii, and the 

 foliage has all the delicious fragrance of 

 the sweet briar. 



Austrian Copper. — .\ charming and 

 unique shade of rich coppery crira.son, 

 with golden bronze shadings; indescriba- 

 blv beautiful; single. 



Austrian Yellow.— Flowers single, of 

 the richest and purest 3'enow without a 

 trace of other color; deep yellow stamens. 

 We have manv beautiful yellow roses, but 

 none of the rich color of this charming 

 flower. 



Double Yellow Provenpe Rose {R. 

 sulphurea or R. hetnispben'ca rather). — 

 The flowers are large, very double and of 

 a rich bright yellow color. It is the finest 

 of all double yellow hardy roses. 



Old Pink China (or Pink Daily! is a 

 beautiful but neglected old rose which 

 should be found in every garden, it is one 

 of the earliest to flower and continues up 

 to winter; the color is bright rose orpink, 

 and it is deliciously sweet. It is quite 

 hardy about this city. John Saul. 



Washington. 



NEW flyBRID SWEET BRIARS. 



Lord Penzance's New Hybrid Sweet 

 Briars. My collection of these beautiful 

 hybrid roses bloomed finely this season; 

 the flowers are large and clear in color 

 and single or semi-double. In the part of 

 my grounds where they are grown the 

 atmosphere was heavy with the delicious 

 scent of the sweet briars. They are stron i 

 vigorous growers, thro winglong graceful 

 branches, which are wreathed with 

 flowers. These lovely hybrids are crosses 

 between thecommon sweetbriar and var- 

 ious other roses, such as Austrian Briar, 

 varieties of Gallica, etc. Like their par- 

 ent, the common sweetbriar, the foliage 

 is deliciously scented. The flowers are "of 

 the most beautiful tints, and produced in 

 great profusion, and the plants are per- 

 fectly hardy and possess a robust vigor 

 which is quite astonishing. On no account 

 should they be pruned beyond removing 

 whatever branches are undesirable to 

 keep. If pruned back like ordinary roses 

 they produce very few blossoms. Give 

 each plant a 4 to 6 foot long stake and 

 tie up some of the leading shoots to it. 

 These briars are seen to best advantage 



when isolated on the lawn, or if grouped 

 set far enough apart to allow of each 

 plant having unrestricted freedom and 

 its branches to hang gracefully and natu- 

 rally. The following varieties have 

 bloomed with me: 



.\niy Robsart— Lovely deep rose. 



,\nne of Geierstcin — Dark crimson, fol- 

 lowed by an abundance of clustered 

 bunches of heps. 



Brenda — Maiden's blush or peach. 



Flora Mclvor— White, blushed with 

 rose. Fine for cutting. 



Lady Penzance— Beautiful soft coppery 

 tint; vigorous, free blooming and deli- 

 ciously perfumed. 



Lucy Ashton — White with pink edges; 

 free grower and free bloomer. 



Meg Merrilies — Gorgeous crimson; ro- 

 bust habit; free blooming. 



Rose Brad wardine — Beautiful clear rose. 

 John Saul. 



Washington, D. C, June 20, '95. 



STANDARD ROSES. 



E. W. T., Philadelphia, asks where he 

 can get some standard rose bushes He 

 writes: "I first saw them at the P^air in 

 1893, then again in front of the Zoolog- 

 ical Garden here in '94. They seemed to 

 be grafted on a pear stock and have a 

 bunch of roses at the top of the stalk, but 

 no growth on its sides." 



They are what are known as "stand- 

 ard" roses. The stem is not "pear stock" 

 at all but European wild rose. Although 

 rose bushes trained in this way are very 

 popular in Europe, they have never found 

 much favorhere,the climate beingagainst 

 them, so our nurserj'men seldom raise 

 them. But if 3'ou place your order now 

 with any of the florists advertising roses 

 in Gardening, if he hasn't got standard 

 rose bushes in stock he can get them for 

 vou. 



The Little Rose Bushes Don't Flour- 

 ish —J. P. T., W. Va., planted out some 

 small tea rose plants in a good, well 

 drained bed in a southeast aspect where 

 they get the sun till mid-day. They grow 

 a little, but don't flourish. The young 

 leaves upon opening oat shrivel up. They 

 show a tendency to mildew, and some of 

 them have greenfly. And asks if such 

 young plants 8 to 10 inches high should 

 be allowed to flower this summer. Mil- 

 dew is probably the trouble, and that is 

 bad enough. If superinduced by weak- 

 ness keep the plants clean, nip off the 

 flower buds, and remove the powdery 

 leaves, and the roses should grow out of 

 it; if by uncongenial conditions they may 

 not, nip oft' their flowers till they make a 

 good deal more body growth. With a 

 little soapy w ater and a sponge swab oft" 

 the greenfly, and when wet dust the shoots 

 wiih some tobacco powder to prevent the 

 insects returning. 



Persian Y'ellow Rose.— C. E. S., 

 Genoa Junction, Wis., writes: "We are 

 anxious to know the nameof theenclosed 

 yellow rose; you will observe the fragrance 

 of its leaves, also the peculiar odor of its 

 flowers." It is the Persian Yellow rose, 

 a very hardy and distinct kind, and now 

 (|uite common in gardens. The peculiar 

 eglantine odor of its leaves is one of its 

 most distinct characteristics. 



Hose the Roses— A correspondent 

 writes: "Our roses are better than ever 

 before — larger and plumper, and strange 

 to relate there are very few insects on 

 them — hardly any on the H. Rs. and onh' 

 a few slugs on the climbers. I wonder if 

 daily hosing with the Rainmaker, under 

 and over them, is the cause? ' Not alto 



gether. Rose bugs are less numerous this 

 year than we have known them to be for 

 years. But the hosing rids 3'our bushes 

 of the slugs, in fact, hard, copious, and 

 frequent hosing is the remedy most 

 insisted on by our bestentomologist, asa 

 preventive or cure of the rose slug. 



Rosa grandiflora.— W. C. E., wants 

 to get it but cannot find it in any cata- 

 logue. Try John Saul, Washington, D. C. 



Orchids. 



ABOUT MY ORCfllDS. 



I have a little cool high studded green- 

 house, cool on the bench but hot in the 

 peak so I have a few dendrobiums iip 

 high, cypripediums lower down and 

 odontoglossums on the bench. I had 

 Odontoglossum grande in bloom last fall, 

 and it was grand. O. crispum has been 

 in flower for two weeks past and it is 

 still magnificent. In a few days two 

 plants ol Miltonia vexillaria will be in 

 flower, and then I shall be lost for adjec- 

 tives. The garden art when once but a 

 little bit acquired leads ever onwards. I 

 had Cyi,ripedium spectabile in bloom 

 under glass in March, and now it is in 

 full glory out of doors; there are two 

 flowers to many of the stems. I always 

 have a few native orchids in flower under 

 glass in March, cypripediums and arethu- 

 sas. I cannot buy Disa grandiSora and 

 don't know where to beg it, none of the 

 dealers seems to have it or wishes to sell 

 a plant or two. [We believe you can get 

 the Disa here. It is a hard plant to culti- 

 vate, keeping it in good health year after 

 year. Some twent\' years ago that grand 

 old gardener the late James Taplin, when 

 at Mr. Such's at South Amboy, N. J., 

 used to grow it splendidly. — Ed.] 



Cambridge, Mass. " T. N. C. 



A WILD WHITE CYFRIPBDIUM. 



M. P., Naugatuck, Conn., writes: "1 

 have found a white cypripedium to-day 

 growing among a lot of pink ones. The 

 lips is pure white, and the sepals and 

 petals yellowish green. Is it common or 

 rare? What is its right name? The pink 

 one is, I think, C. spectabile. Can the 

 white one be forced as easily as the pink 

 ones?" 



We are not satisfied with the descrip- 

 tion given as it is not enough to enable 

 us to distinguish the species. Can't vou 

 send us some leaves or a leaf stem with 

 old flower of your white cypripedium. 

 Also send us leaves, stem, and old flower 

 of what you call C. spectibile. We are 

 inclined to think that you have found a 

 white foi-m of C acaule. We have also 

 seen white flowered forms of C spectabile 

 but not with sepals and petals as you 

 describe Besides, specfa/)//e surely doesn't 

 bloom so soon as this with you? Candi- 

 dum might answer your description, but 

 we don't know of its being wild in your 

 neighborhood. Both C. ptibescens and 

 C. parviffora may be with you, however, 

 but we never saw or heard of a white- 

 lipped form of either of them. Yes, in pro- 

 portion to its strength there is no reason 

 why a white flowerei variety of any 

 cypripedium shouldn't be as easily forced 

 as a normal one. 



Since the above was written we have 

 received leaves and flowers from our cor- 

 respondent, and it is as we expected 

 Cypripedium acaule. 



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