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and its large creamy flowers hang in graceful 

 profusion around. 



The hybrid perpetual Roses are loaded with 

 elegant blooms. They can be cultivated within 

 such limited space, that a good many can be 

 accommodated in any ordinary sized bed. It 

 is best to train them up to stakes as their 

 steme are slender and are apt to fall to the 

 ground when loaded with heavy clusters of 

 flowers. Every one has favorites ; among 

 mine is the Grcneral Jacqueminot with its bril- 

 liant crimson flowers, so large and bright that 

 the eye is dazzled while looking at it ; also, 

 the Caroline de Sansal with such clear flesh- 

 colored petals, so pure and delicate in its set- 

 ting of dark rich leaves ; the Jules Margot- 

 tin is exceedingly rich, its carmine purple 

 flowers are so double, it seems almost impos- 

 sible that so many petals could be collected in 

 one flower. 



Bedding Plants — Peg down a few of 



the leading shoots of such plants as verbenas 

 and petunias, and stake and tie up dahlias for 

 exhibition flowers ; but when only required 

 for decorative purposes, the plants are better 

 pegged down. They look better than when 

 staked, and it is also an ad^'antage when stakes 

 are scarce. Any other large plants requiring 

 stakes should be noticed after rough winds, for 

 if loosened in the ground, they do not grow 

 satisfactorily. Keep the soil constantly stirred 

 among young plants, with the hoe ; it not only 

 prevents weeds from growing, but warms the 

 soil, and prevents its drying out in hot, dry 

 weather. It is a mistake to attempt watering 

 every plant when established in the ground ; 

 they will usually do much better without, and 

 if watering is commenced, it must be con- 

 tinued, or the plants suffer much more than if 

 not watered at all. Exceptions must be made 

 to such plants as large ferns, palms, humeas 

 and other large plants, in or out of pots, used 

 for temporary decoration of the pleasure 

 ground. 



New Tea Rose, BiuqiiL — Prominent 

 among the many acquisitions added to the 

 rose family during 73, is the new white tea 

 rose Binqui. Decidedly this is a novelty 



possessing those rare charms that makes the 

 rose a favorite gem throughout the universe. 



The modest and sublime appearance of this 

 genus among the other new things in my 

 collection, induced me to note it for The 

 Horticulturist in my own humble way. 

 Having received this rose, while yet very 

 small, from Peter Henderson's rose houses, 

 I nurtured it with care so that I could the 

 more readily judge of its merits. The plant 

 when received, had four inches of erect stem 

 with several small leaflets. A bud of a cor- 

 responding size had already formed, and was 

 making rapid strides to its full development. 

 The dutiful little plant bloomed two weeks 

 in a manner that a rose grower would call 

 very profuse, and would have continued 

 longer had I not stayed its smiles with a 

 view to grow it as a specimen plant. I now 

 plucked the old peduncles together with a 

 new bud that was forming, suffered a portion 

 of its leaves to wither, and repotted into a 

 larger size, adding a little fine sand and a 

 liberal portion of well rotted chicken mould ; 

 this done, I plunged it in the ground in a 

 warm exposure out doors, and it there re- 

 mained to await results. 



Two months work marvelous changes — 



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rose Binqui is no more recognized as the 

 small, tender, single-stemmed thing that it 

 used to be. My expectations are doubly 

 realized, the plant has grown to an astonish- 

 ing proportion, and blooming with an inex- 

 haustible vigor that I have not perceived in 

 anything of the kind. Branched low, it forms 

 a symmetrical bush without the aid of arti- 

 ficial pinching or pruning. Leaves dark 

 green, thin, oblong, and very smooth, slightly 

 orange color round the sharply serrated 

 margin. Buds beautifully formed, large and 

 compact, petals pure white, large and very 

 fragrant. — A Western Horticulturist. 



Peter Henderson says that experiments 

 with pure water, sawdust, charcoal, anthracite, 

 brick-dust, and sands of all colors and tex- 

 tures, showed that cuttings placed in each, in 

 the same temperature roofed almost simulta- 

 neously and e'lnally icell. A sharp snap this 

 at pretentious scientists. 



