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GARDENING. 



Dec. I, 



much of all of this depends upon the 

 treatment and attention given the plants 

 bv the grower. The flowers must be 

 clean, clear and of good size, form, sub- 

 stance and duration, and such as open 

 perlect and have a pleasing effect. The 

 following varieties I can recommend from 

 experience. They have fine flowers, fine 

 foliage, and good habit, and we can have 

 them in small, medium, or specimen-sized 

 plants as we wish, and if we want to cut 

 them they are excellent for cut flowers: 



Ivory, white, dwarf 



H. L. Sunderbruch, yellow. 



Clinton Chalfant, golden yellow. 



Joseph H. White, creamy white. 



Puritan, white, flushed lilac. 



Portia, delicate pink. 



L. Canning, creamy white. 



Inter-Ocean, white. 



George William Childs, crimson. 



A. H. Fewkes, yellow. 



Domination, white. 



Ada Spaulding, light pink. 



Louis Boehmer, pink-purple, hairy. 



Superbiflora, carmine-rose and white. 



Vernal Fall, pink. 



Theo, white. 



Louis Menand, brovi-n and gold. 



J. Shrimpton, red. 



Etoile de Lyon, white, striped purple. 



Major Bonnaffon, yellow. 



Wm. H. Lincoln, yellow. 



lora, light pink, tubular. 



Octave Mirabeau 



Georgienne Bramhall, yellow. 



Primula, primrose. 



Columbine, red, reverse of petals, 

 bronze. This is a new variety not yet 

 on the market, but it will be next spring. 

 Specimen plants of it grown by Mr. Hat- 

 field, my neighbor, have been fine. Under 

 electric light it was the prettiest variety 

 at the Boston show. But it is of no use 

 for large flowers. Georgiana Pitcher 

 promises to be one of the best yellows. 

 J.iMKS Wheeler. 



Brookline, Mass. 



CHRYSflNTHEIWUM ORETCflEH BUETTNER, 



This variety, which figures in the pres- 

 ent issue, is a magriificent loosely built 

 white Japanese, which received certificate 

 offered for the most distinctive white 

 seedling at the recent Chicago show. It 

 originated with Mr. E. Buettner, Park 

 Ridge, 111., and caused a marked sensa- 

 tion when on exhibition. Its size and 

 purity of color, combined with its irregu- 

 lar grace of form, make it one of the 

 notable accessions of the present season. 



Roses. 



ROSES. 



X, South New Jersey, asks: "Do I need 

 to protect for the winter any of the fol- 

 lowing roses? They were selected care- 

 fully by a comparison of many lists m 

 G.\RDENING, and were planted in deep rich 

 soil according to the directions given. I 

 lost a number of roses last winter by 

 protecting them with leaves, under which 

 they decayed, and am anxious to avoid 

 the loss this year. Our climate is very 

 warm and open, with almost no snow, 

 and the thermometer seldom down to 

 zero, except in unusual winters like that 

 of '93-'94, when evergreen euonymous 

 ten and fifteen feet tall were cut to the 

 ground. I divide the list of roses into 

 three sections. 



\. "Roses that have been in theirplaces 

 a year and a half. Hermosa, Cramoisi 

 Superieur; IHichcsse dc Thuringe, very 



thrifty; Virginia and Rubens, Tea roses, 

 rather less so; and Marie Drivon and 

 Reine Marie Henriette, climbers which 

 have never climbed at all or blossomed. 

 They have grown a very little and are 

 each abouta foot tall." 



.4 ns.— Cover all of these. Lay them 

 down flat on the ground with the 

 branches close together and pointing one 

 way and place a few inches deep of 

 earth on top of them; or better still have 

 some sods cut and place these one deep 

 and grass side down on top of the roses 

 in place of the loose earth, as recom- 

 mended in Gardening before now. 



2. "Roses that were set out in the 

 spring of this year blossomed well, and 

 are big and healthy. Gen. Jacqueminot, 

 Paul Neyron, Mrs. John Laing, Clothilde 

 Soupert, Mme. G. Bruant, La France, 

 Malmaison, Persian Yellow, Crimson 

 Rambler." 



.4ns.— All of these should be perfectly 

 hardy with you. It may be safer how- 

 ever to mulch about, or cover with a sod 

 La France, Malmaison, and if it be small 

 Crimson Rambler too. 



3. "Roses just bought, in their places 

 since the 16th October and only from 4 

 to (3 inches high. American Beautv, 

 Prince Camille de Rohan, Magna Charta, 

 Anne de Diesbach, Mrs. Paul, Duchess 

 of Albany, Alfred Colomb, Gloire de 

 Margottin, Ulrich Bnmner, Mme. Chas. 

 Wood, Mrs. Degraw, Mme. Schwaller, 

 Coquette des Blanches, Sweetbrier, 

 Climbing La France, Dawson Rose, 

 Wichuraiana. (a) As the roses have been 

 planted perfectly erect, it would be 

 sufficient to protect them with earth as 

 is so often suggested in Gardening, with- 

 out breaking them. I intend mulching 

 them all for the winter with a well de- 

 cayed compost (6) of cow manure and 

 oak leaves if you consider it advisable. 

 This I thought of forking in in the spring, 

 and then mulching them with wood 

 ashes, as suggested by one of j'our sub- 

 scribers as a preventive of mildew. 

 Can you recommend this last procedure 

 (c) from your own experience? How 

 thick would it be (d) safe to make the 

 mulch? Are not ashes rather (e) danger- 

 ous to use?" 



.4ns. — Roses four to six inches high are 

 altogether too small to plant out o. 

 doors in the fall, for the frosts of winter 

 are apt to heave them partly out of the 

 ground; but such small plants set out in 

 spring would grow all right. So far as 

 hardiness goes all except Mrs, Paul, 

 Duchess of Albany, Mme. Schwaller, and 

 climbing La France should be perfectly 

 hardy with you; rather than risk such 

 little plants as these out of doors we 

 would lift and plant them in a box, filled 

 with ordinary moist earth, and keep 

 them in a light but cool cellar or window 

 over winter and plant them out of 

 doors again in spring, (a) Yes, you may 

 draw the earth up against them, or bet- 

 ter still place a spadelul of earth about 

 them, taking it from somewhere else so as 

 not to make a hole in the bed. (6) Ouite 

 good, but if the manure is wet or pasty 

 don't let it come up against the stems of 

 the roses, (c) No, we have not tried it, 

 but we have no doubt that a top dress- 

 ing of wood ashes is good for roses, 

 (dande) A top dressing consists of a 

 sprinkling broadcast over the bed say a 

 half-inch deep, then there is no danger, 

 but keep it away from the necks of the 

 plants. 



Rose Bugs, will drouth kill them? 

 A subscriber in Rockingham County, Va., 

 writes under date of October 25: "We 

 are having a fearful drought, not one 



spear of chickweed to be seen, only think 

 of it, but it will come with rain, there is 

 no hope of killing it. I do hope it may 

 kill the rose bugs. I remember one dry 

 fall and winter when the rose bugs were 

 a week later coming the next season, and 

 very few of them. 



Greenhouse and Window. 



GREENHOUSE NOTES. 



Amaryllis Aiilica, and Empress of In- 

 dia, and other hybrids are now coming 

 into bloom with us. We give these plants 

 a partial rest all the summer, but they re- 

 tain their foliage. When we bring them 

 into the greenhouse in September we grad- 

 ually increase the supply of water and the 

 temperature, and give an occasional 

 watering of liquid manure. A.Johnsoni 

 blooms with us about May. It is de- 

 cidedly deciduous. After it isdone bloom- 

 ing we allow it to gradually dry oft". We 

 have one specimen that produces every 

 year from 50 to 60 spikes. Cyclamen are 

 now coming into bloom. Place them as 

 near the glass as you can. The earliest 

 potted batch of freesias, if their pots are 

 well filled with roots, may be brought 

 into a warm house, placing them upon a 

 shelf near the glass, to hurry them on. 

 Cinerarias and calceolarias need atten- 

 tion in the way of re-potting, and keep- 

 ing them clean from green-fly by careful 

 fumigating— they are very sensitive to to- 

 bacco smoke. Keep fresh tobacco stems 

 on the hot water pipes. The temperature 

 must not be allowed to rise too high, es- 

 pecially by fire heat; the more cold-frame- 

 like the house is kept the better. Give the 

 plants plenty of room. 



Oxalis Bowiei. rose, cernua, j^ellow, ver- 

 sicolor, crimson and white and pale yel- 

 low, purpurea and alba are coming into 

 flower in suspended pots and baskets. 

 Lobelia Erinus makes a fine decorative 

 plant for the cool greenhouse or window 

 garden. Nasturtiums { Tropseolum) come 

 in very useful for cutting, and last well. 

 Re-pot any geraniums needed for winter- 

 flowering. This is the time we put in leal 

 cutting of Rex Begonias. 



Wm. FiTZ WILLIAM. 



SOME OP MY WINTER BLOOMING WINDOW 

 PLANTS. 



One of the best plants for the window 

 garden is 



Plumbago coccinea.— It is a reliable 

 and persistant bloomer. The first buds 

 appear in late October or early November 

 and the pretty rose colored flowers help 

 to brighten many a gloomy winter day. 

 It is a verj' patient plant, willing to take 

 a back seat, not seeming to require the 

 brightest sun, but it likes a warm place, 

 indeed, that seems the only condition it 

 insists upoo. Sometimes on a cool morn- 

 ing I have found my plant, with leaves 

 drooping and looking in a most discon- 

 solate manner, but as soon as the room 

 is light, warm and cheery, it recovers 

 itself and no harm is done. Mine has 

 never been troubled with insects of any 

 kind, nor does it drop its lower leaves, 

 as some plants will. These are two 

 good qualities in house plants for ama- 

 teurs. [This plumbago is an East Indian 

 plant. See illustration of it in Gardening, 

 Vol. 1, March 1, 1893.— Ed.] A plant of 



Chorozema varium is at this writing 

 loaded with buds. Seeing the plant 

 listed as a winter bloomer I bought one 

 last spring, knowing nothing of it; the 

 care has been a sort of an experiment. As 

 It grew it has been cut back, to give more 



