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GARDENING. 



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THE GIANT OX-EYfi. (Pyrelhrum uligiuosum). 



creeping form, blooms a blush pink, 

 changing to white, and "Pink Roamer," 

 having sweet briar blood in it, producing 

 single flowers nearly two inches in diame- 

 eter, a bright pink and almost white in 

 the center. Established plants will throw 

 up shoots fifteen or more feet in a season. 



Then comes an English introduction, 

 "Paul's Carmine Pillar Rose," with large 

 single carmine flowers from top to bot- 

 tom on an established plant. Mr. John 

 N. May, a rose expert who saw it in 

 bloom in England, pronounced it one of 

 the finest sights he had ever seen. 



Just as handsome is climbing Wootton, 

 a sport from the hybrid tea, Souvenir de 

 Wootton, having the same double rich 

 rosy carmine flowers. It is a strong 

 grower, making canes ten to fifteen feet, 

 and is claimed to be hardy in New Jersey. 



The Yellow Rambler (Aglaia) claimed 

 to have the same habit as the Crimson 

 Rambler, producing its small 3 T ellow flow- 

 ers in clusters. 



The Lord Penzance Hybrid Sweet Briars 

 are vigorous enough to be treated as 

 climbers, and in addition to the perfume 

 of the foliage, which they retain from the 

 parent, they produce single flowers deep 

 rose, dark crimson, pure white, peach 

 and gorgeous crimson, and mature hand- 

 some berries. 



Various old fashioned garden roses and 

 the Austrian Briars have been used onlhe 

 English sweet briar t o produce these hy- 

 brids. We must remember that in new 

 varieties we can only obtain small plants 

 and must not expect much the first year 

 and must protect well the first winter at 

 least. 



RESULTS OF PROPER WINTER PROTECTION. 



Having experienced a fall in tempera- 

 ture at Egandale to 25° below zero, fol- 

 lowed by a week during which the ther- 

 mometer rarely got higher than 5° above 

 at midday, settling to below zero at 

 night, I was a little anxious when on 

 February 10 the mild spell gave me an 

 opportunity to examine some "new 

 things" that were passing the first win- 

 ter with me. I first examined the new 

 rose Climbing Wootton, that gave enough 

 blooms last summer to compensate for 

 its cost even if it failed to endure over 

 winter under protection. To my joy I 

 found it in most perfect condition, the 

 eyes full and plump and the wood firm 

 and green. Then I took a look at Paul's 

 Carmine Pillar Rose, that charming 

 introduction from England, and found it 

 in the same satisfactory condition. Both 

 of these roses are considered rather hardy 

 and they might have done well under a 

 simpler method of covering, still my- way- 

 was so easy and as it provides a circula- 

 tion of air around the plants, I will 

 describe it. 



Both are grown as pillar roses in indi- 

 vidual beds cut in the lawn. They 

 remained attached to their roots until 

 about December 1st in order to ripen as 

 much wood as possible. Artificial water- 

 ing had been withheld after September 

 1st for the same reason. They were 

 taken down, the vines loosely tied to- 

 gether, and laid directly upon the sod, 

 which they touched only here and there. 

 Short branches of spruce were worked in 

 and around them to fill in open spaces 

 and also laid on top. Two boards one 



loot wide and nine in length were tempo- 

 rarily held in place, one on each side, form- 

 ing a trough. Oak leaves that had been 

 gathered when dry and placed under 

 shelter to keep them so, were then filled 

 in loosely so as to come up to the top of 

 the boards. Then a cover wider than 

 the top was nailed on and the end away 

 from the post closed by a board. The 

 other end, having the post in the wav, 

 was closed up by one-year-cut juniper 

 branches used for covering the year before 

 and saved that their dry sharp pointed 

 leaves might repel over-inquisitive field 

 mice. Coarse strawy manure was then 

 placed over the box, and tor about two 

 feet each side to keep out frost from the 

 ground. 



I also opened up a cold frame which I 

 had protected so as to have in shape for 

 starting ranunculus and fcund the soil 

 unfrozen and in planting condition. This 

 had about six inches of dry leaves, placed 

 immediately upon the soil, then the sash, 

 then a wooden shutter, and finally rough 

 litter. In an adjoining sash, protected in 

 the same manner but the leaves omitted, 

 the earth was also unfrozen. 

 . I found evidence among the anemones 

 in this sash of the burro wing of field mice. 

 An ordinary mouse trap baited with 

 cheese soon exterminated them. 



W. C. Egan. 



ROS« MOSCflflTfl. 



Refering to my notes on the beautiful 

 Rosa moschata in a late number of Gar- 

 dening Mr. Henry S. Hunnewell writes 

 me: 



"In the last number of Gardening I see 



