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GARDENING. 



Feb. /, 



failed to winter well. It may have been 

 that had the plants been obtained from a 

 more northern point than Florida, which 

 is where they came from, the result would 

 have been different, for I am a believer in 

 the doctrine of plants becoming acclim- 

 atized. At any rate, as this rose is a 

 native of China, and nearly all plants 

 from that country live out in Philadel- 

 phia, I propose to make another trial of 

 this, the Rosa sinica, or Cherokee rose. 



In the summer of 1895, when visiting 

 the Royal Gardens, Kew, England, I was 



de Dijon and from the first of March it 

 made a growth of four feet and is still 

 growing. This ought to make an excel- 

 lent companion for the Crimson Rambler. 

 Chambersburg, Pa. Beyer Bros. 



NEW ROSE SOUVENIR DU PRESIDENT CflRNOT. 



The accompanying engraving gives a 

 fair idea of the form of this new hybrid 

 tea rose but can give no conception of its 

 beautiful color, an exquisite shade of shell 

 pink. 



A CLIMBING MOSS ROSE. 



enraptured with the beautiful climbing 

 Rosa moschata, which was then, July 

 2nd, displaying its large yellowish white 

 flowers, in clusters, in great profusion. 

 The flowers were, many of them two 

 inches in diameter. It seemed to be ot 

 most vigorous growth. Now this would 

 be a glorious rose for the south, and per- 

 haps for this state, as it is a native of 

 Southern Europe, and many plants from 

 there live out with us. Have any readers 

 of Gardening had experience with this 

 rose? Joseph Meehan. 



Philadelphia. 



fl CLIMBING MOSS ROSE. 



This rose is a sport from Princess Ade- 

 laide, having the same foliage and color 

 of flowers, except that the flowers are a 

 little larger. It sported two years ago, 

 making a growth of ten feet the first sea- 

 son, but would have made more had the 

 top not been accidentally broken off. 

 This branch bon one hundred and eighteen 

 buds and flowers the following spring, 

 making a mass of flowers. 



The plant is now about fourteen feet 

 high, well branched and was full of flowers 

 when photographed last June. Thewhite 

 spot on the rose, about four boards 

 high, is where the sport started, with the 

 old bush or parent plant to the right, or 

 side of the porch. It has held its new 

 form, as we have budded it on to a Gloire 



It was raised by M Pernet-Ducher, the 

 French rosarian and is a seedling from 

 Lady Mary Fitzwilliam and an unnamed 

 variety. It promises to be very largely 

 grown b3' florists for cut flowers and will 

 undoubtedly be equally useful in the gar- 

 den. 



Trees and Shrubs. 



EXPERIENCE WITH SHRUBS. 



There are a few things that vex an am- 

 ateur in gardening very much, and one is 

 the selection of shrubs and trees that will 

 endure the climate of certain sections. 



One reads the catalogue descriptions, is 

 captivated, hastens to secure the plants, 

 and though he be careful in planting finds 

 that fully one-third of his choicest selec- 

 tions are not hardy enough to endure the 

 winter, or die the following summer. 



The first impulse is to call the nursery- 

 man bad names and resolve you will 

 never patronize him again. But after a 

 few years' experience it gradually dawns 

 upon one that the planter's judgment has 

 been at fault on one of four points at 

 least, namely soil required, particular 

 location, protection until root action 

 sets in, or worst of all being afraid to use 

 the pruning knife when planting. 



An amateur desires to grow a bush 

 quickly and dislikes to prune, not think- 

 ing that the top is out of proportion to 

 the roots and that the shrubs may have 

 been ten days in transportation and dur- 

 ing that time without nourishment. 



Another reason for failure is found in 

 an innate desire to display our finest speci- 

 mens in a conspicuous part of the border 

 or lawn. This is not always wise, espe- 

 cially if one's residence faces north or 

 west. This fact was brought to my 

 notice very clearly by reason of successive 

 failures to grow the Japan Judas (Cercis 

 Japonica) on the north side of my house 

 having a lull western sweep. I moved 

 one miserable specimen to a sheltered 

 location and afterwards a more magnifi- 

 cent looking bush would be hard to find. 



The old desire to let the passer-by ad- 

 mire its beauty took possession of me 

 and I moved it to the front again this fall 

 and have surrounded it on two sides with 

 a windbreak of eornfodder and brush. It 

 having a mass of fibrous roots over two 

 feet square with soil adhering to them, I 

 shall pass the winter with a measure of 

 hope. 



With me Forsythia Fortunei, Rhus 

 cotinus, Mahonias aquiihlia and Japon- 

 ica, andromedas, rhododendrons, deut- 

 zias, Viburnum lantana, Cornus san- 

 guines, red-flowered dogwood, tulip trees, 

 European mountain ash, paw paws, have 

 either died in winter, or like the rhus, 

 blighted in summer. Under same condi- 

 tions spiraeas, berberis, Paul's thorn, 

 euonymus in variety, tamarix, ginkgos, 

 sumachs, lilacs, iteas, Prunus Pissardi, 

 California privets, purple filberts, Vibur- 

 num rugosum, Cornus circinata and 

 Borida, Hydrangea paniculata, paul- 

 ownias, Hypericums, chiladelphus, have 

 flourished. 



There are four shrubs every small gar- 

 den should have, namely Prunus Pissatdi, 

 Tamarix chinensis, Van Houtte's spiraea 

 and Ligustrum ovalifolium. They can 

 be depended upon in any situation and 

 there is a wealth of oeauty in their forms 

 and colors. 



Am interested in lilacs, have a number 

 of new varieties. Some of them send up 

 numerous sprouts; shall I keep them cut 

 and grow to single stem? They are 

 planted in groups five feet apart. 



Shall I cut Clematis paniculata, C. vir- 

 giniana, and Hall's honeysuckle on veran- 

 dah to ground? If so when? 



Have failed so far to grow paw paws. 

 Can they be raised on uplands? 



Frankfort Springs, Pa. O.G. Bryte. 



Mr Bryte's experience is certainly an 

 interesting one, inasmuch as in the list 

 given as not standing his climate is a 

 tree whose habitat extends much farther 

 north, and among thos given as having 

 flourished is one not considered reliably 

 hardy in its young state much farther 

 north than Washington, D. C. The tulip 

 tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is found 

 native as far north as Vermont and Mich- 

 igan, but reaches its finest development 

 in the valley of the lower Wabash River 

 and along the western slopes of the Alle- 

 gheny Mountains. In my grounds at 

 Highland Park, Ills., in an exposed situa- 

 tion it has never lost a tip, while the 

 paulownia mentioned as hardy always 

 freezes to th ■ ground unless well wrapped 

 in winter. 



Deutzias also freeze back with me unless 

 protected, but I find that the Pride of 

 Rochester is the hardiest. Both the rho- 

 dodendron and andromeda (O.vyciencfrum 

 arboreum) require a peaty soil and may 

 require winter protection in his section, 



