i8g6. 



GARDENING. 



4i 



THR ROSE-PURPLE CONE-FLOWER. 



Lady Arthur Hill— (1890). A beau- 

 tifully shaped flower, tender satiny rose; 

 a free bloomer. 



Madame Moreau— (1872). Few roses 

 combine so many good qualities; it is of 

 robust, vigorous and short jointed 

 growth, every branchlet ending in a 

 flower bud. Flowers are very large, 

 finely imbricated and dark red shaded 

 violet. Thesplants are as free bloomers 

 as any tea rose. 



Margaret Dickson. — Flowers medium, 

 white tinged flesh, good form but borne 

 upon the end of very long canes. This 

 variety should be lightly pruned during 

 summer, otherwise few flowers appear; 

 exceedingly vigorous. 



Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford — 

 (1894). Very large, of fine form, and in 

 color of a peculiar dark rose tint with the 

 outer petals of lighter shade. 



Spencer— (1894). Of the Baronne de 

 Rothschild type of growth, stout and 

 erect; flower is very large, of excellent 

 form and ot a satiny rose color, its outer 

 petals have a white sheen. 



Souvenir de Mme. Eugene Verdier — 

 11894). This promises to be one of the 

 best roses of the last productions; extra 

 large, fine form, bright rose color, with 



outer petals of a silvery tint. It is a free 

 bloomer. 



To these could be added another score 

 or two of excellent varieties which would 

 be desirable for large collections. When 

 one has several hundred varieties of hy- 

 brid roses in bloom to select from, it is 

 difficult to confine the best to a few sorts, 

 but we want here varieties that will 

 afford blooms daily from April until frost, 

 and ignore others whose blooming period 

 extends only during a week or two, 

 although in point of colors and form 

 many of them are exceedingly handsome. 

 P.J. Berckmans. 



Fruitland, near Augusta, Ga., October 

 9, 1896. 



HARDY ROSES MY FAVORITES. 

 My experience in growing hardy roses 

 in the open ground led me a long time 

 ago to discard budded plants and grow 

 only t arieties on their own roots, and I 

 prefer growing the plants five feet or 

 more high with hundreds of flowers on 

 them rather than to cut them down clear 

 to the ground in order to get a few choice 

 exhibition flowers. The f.nest sight on 

 my grounds this season was a bush of 

 the Province rose with hundreds Q f 



flowers on it, and they are so fine to cut 

 from, they have the true rose scent and 

 perfect foliage with long stems. The 

 Province and Madame Plantier roses 

 always grow and do well everywhere, 

 and they will be alive and at the funerai 

 of all the other hybrid varieties planted 

 at the same time. Here is a list of 12 of 

 the kinds that do best with me: 



Province or Cabbage rose, rose color. 



Madame Plantier, white. 



Gen. Jacqueminot, vivid crimson. 



Mrs. John Laing pink. 



Magna Charta, pink-carmine. 



Mine. Georges Bruant, white. 



Paul Neyron, deep rose. 



Baron Bonstetten, velvety maroon. 



Mme. Gabriel Luizet, pink. 



Gen. Washington, red shaded crimson. 



Ulrich Brunner, cherry red. 



Caroline de Sansal, flesh color. 



Mr. C. W. Ranlett, a retired rose 

 grower of Holyoke, Mass., who gives his 

 whole attention to hardy roses would 

 recommend for twelve varieties: 



John Hopper, bright rose; Marquise de 

 Castellane, carmine rose; Prince Camille 

 de Rohan, velvety crimson; Anne de 

 Diesbach, carmine; Mine. Gabriel Luizet; 

 Fisher Holmes, bright crimsot); Jules 

 Margottin, carmine rose; Gen. Jacque- 

 minot; Gen. Washington; Caroline de 

 Sansal, and Alsace-Lorraine, deep velvety 

 red; Alfred Colomb, carmine-crimson, 

 In ten best sorts W. C. Barry, of Roches- 

 ter, N. Y., would add three not before 

 mentioned, namely. Marshall P. Wilder, 

 cherry rose; Merveillede Lyon, white, and 

 Louis Van Houtte, crimson maroon. Mr. 

 W. H. Spooner, of Boston, in his twelve 

 best gives us Charles Lefebs-re, reddish 

 crimson; Hippolvte Jamain, carmine red; 

 Marie Baumann, crimson vermilion; 

 Annie Wood, bright crimson, and Victor 

 Verdier, bright rose. The late Peler 

 Henderson would add Mabel Morrison; 

 flesh white; Queen of Queens, pink with 

 blush edges, and Pride of Walt ham, flesh 

 color. Alvin Jordan, who loved roses for 

 their perfume, would add three more, 

 namely, Francois Michelon, deep rose; 

 Maurice Bernardin, bright crimson, and 

 Coquette des Alpes, white. Elbert S. 

 Carman in a list of twenty would give 

 Rev. J. B. M. Camm, crimson rose; 

 Francois Michelon; Baron Prevost, pure 

 rose; Abel Grand, glossy rose; Boieldieu. 

 cherry red; Mile. Marie Rady, vermilion; 

 Queen of Waltham, cherry red; Pierre 

 Notting. deep crimson, e'ight different 

 kinds. John N. May in a list of twenty- 

 five hybrid perpetuals and hvbrid teas 

 mentions Boule de Neige, Coquette des 

 Blanches, La France, Mme. Eugenie 

 Verdier, Countess of Oxford, Francois 

 Levet, Duke of Teck, Dinsmore, Abel 

 Carriere, Duke of Edinburg, La Rosiere, 

 Jean Liabaud and Monsieur Boncenne. 

 Here we have a list ot the best roses from 

 different growers in different sections of 

 this country. When I find a rose that 

 will not grow on its own roots I discard 

 it for some other variety. Capt. Christv 

 is one of them, although Mr. Spooner 

 informs me that I will succeed better with 

 the climbing variety of that name, but I 

 think if one will take the Province, 

 Madame Plantier, Jacqueminot, Mrs 

 John Laing, Magna Charta. Mine. Gabriel 

 Luizet and Baron Bonstettin and grow 

 them in large quantities they will derive 

 more pleasure than in growing a large 

 number of varieties. 



Springfield, Mass. Charles L. Burr. 



If you appreciate Gardening please 

 recommend it to those friends to whom 

 you know the paper would be useful. 

 You can assist us materially in this wav. 



