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CHICAGO, JULY i, 1897. 



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No. 116. 



A BED OP BOURBON AND BENGAL ROSES AT THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. ST. LOUIS. 



Roses. 



BOURBON AND BENGAL ROSES. 



In St. Louis the three roses comprising 

 the bed seen in the engraving can be 

 relied on to furnish an abundance of 

 bloom from June till frost. The photo- 

 graph, showing a bed in the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, was taken the first 

 week in October. They are the Bourbon 

 rose Hermosa (rose pink), and the Bengal 

 roses Agrippina (crimson) and Cels Multi- 

 flora (flesh color). 



All of these are old sorts, long in culti- 

 vation, and the last named is now seldom 

 catalogued, but it is an excellent variety 

 to complete a trio of ever blooming roses 

 of like habit, adding a distinct color. 

 Indeed, the only rose I know that would 

 take its place in such a combination is the 

 charming polyantha, Clothilde Soupert. 



The three mentioned are found perfectly 

 hardy at the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis, (where they have for years 

 furnished the bulk of summer roses) with 

 a winter protection of six inches of pine 

 needles put on in fall or early winter after 

 the ground is frozen. 



Fanny Copley Seavey. 



THRBB RECENTLY INTRODUCED GOOD GAR- 

 DEN ROSES. 



Among the new hybrid perpetuals are 

 three that seem as easily managed as the 

 old timer Gen '1 Jacqueminot. 



Captain Hayward, sent out in lS94by 

 Bennett Bros., is a vigorous grower and 

 a free bloomer. Flowers a brilliant crim- 

 son, not quite as dark as Gen'l Jacquemi- 

 not but about the same size. It is one that 

 does well pegged down. 



La Rosiere, although sent out in 1874, 

 has not been grown much in the west and 

 therefore may be classed as new. It is not 

 as strong a grower as Capt. Hayward 



but is of excellent habit and a free 

 bloomer. Its flowers are of a very dark 

 crimson, full and of fair size. 



In 1894 Messrs Alex. Dickson & Sons, 

 of Ireland, introduced Mrs. R. G. Shar- 

 man Crawford, a splendid companion to 

 the above. It is a moderate grower, 

 extremely fine in bud, the blooms being 

 a deep rose. Any one desiring additions 

 to their collections, not having this trio, 

 will make no mistake in including them. 



W. C. E. 



GLOIRE DB DIJON ROSE. 



While making n 1 objection to the advice 

 of "West Tennessee" to Mr. Conover to 

 try a budded Gloire de Dijon rose, I must 

 protest against his terming it "feeble on 

 its own roots." Here with us it is any- 

 thing but feeble, compared with other 

 sorts common here. Perhaps the climate 

 of West Tennessee permitsof the growing 

 of sorts of much stronger growth than 

 we are accustomed to see here. But we 



