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varieties mentioned above. A really g-ood laster. I 

 had a bloom tied up for nearly a week in July, and 

 showed it well in London. It was well shown by man)- 

 exhibitors in London. 



Mine. Maurice cie Luse.—X ^ood strontf thrower; 

 secondary shoots extra strong- ; foliage very good ; 

 blooms are semi-globular in shape. In dull weather the 

 colour is a dark canary yellow. A fair lasting rose, 

 with a good perfume ; good for exhibition as well as 

 bedding. 



Avuca. — A strong grower ; growths on maidens nearly 

 five feet long. Said to be a crimson Killarney. Blooms 

 only moderately full ; best in the autumn. Perfume first 

 class. Must be cut young for show purposes. The 

 raisers show wonderful blooms of it. Gold medal. 



H. Aruiytage Moore. — A coloured plate of this flower 

 appeared in a few numbers back of this paper. Growth 

 very good, flowers are produced in enormous quantities ; 

 in fact, the tree is always in flower. The best bedding 

 rose I have met this year, and now and then good 

 enough for show. 



Mrs. Sfeivari Clark. — E-atra. vigorous in growth ; 

 flowers best in the autumn. Petals very stift'; inside 

 colour a dark, glowing, rosy carmine, outside much 

 paler. Perfume is glorious. A good show rose. Gold 

 medal. 



Queen of Spain. — Growth only moderate, flowers are 

 very full. Colour and shape something after the style 

 of Mme. Jules Gravereaux. Liable to come coarse and 

 split, but an excellent show rose when caught right. 

 Gold medal. 



W. E. Lippiatt. — Growth and habit after the style of 

 Charles Lefebvre. Blooms are very large, full-globular 

 in shape, with a good centre. Colour a dark maroon 

 shaded violet. Perfume grand. A most valuable 

 addition to our newer H. Teas. A grand show rose. 



Colonel Williamson. — h. really strong good grower. 

 Blooms are large, shaped like Catherine Mermet, and 

 silvery pink in colour. Foliage good. First rate. 



George C. Waud. -The colour in this rose is unique 

 and unapproached by any other flower. Blooms are 

 a vermilion colour with a mixture of orange. The 

 young bloom looks as if it were varnished. It has a 

 great future. Gold medal. Splendid. 



Harry Kirk. — A H. T. according to the raisers, but 

 made a Tea in classification by the N. R. S. It is being 

 sent out in catalogues as a H. T. , but it was given the 

 gold medal as a Tea. Growth very strong, dark red in 

 colour, very thorny. As a cutback it grows into a 

 large bush. Foliage dark and soft textured. Flowers 

 in bud stage are lovely. A dark yellow in colour, which 

 fades in strong sun. A most valuable addition to Tea 

 class. First class for bedding, and good enough for 

 exhibition. 



Mrs. Myles Kennedy. — Growth with me excellent. 

 Blooms very full, and impatient of wet. Colour- cream 

 with suffusion of pink. Said to be a glorified Souvenir 

 d'Elise \'ardon. An exhibitor's rose, but a grand Tea. 

 Gold medal. Shown well in London. 



Dr. O'Donel Broiime. — A grand strong grower, very 

 nearly a H. P. in manners and customs, but a true H. T. 

 Most of the gardening papers when reporting on it at 

 the autumn show of N. R. S. made it a H. P., but its 

 parents (I know them) are a H. P. and a pure Tea. 

 The flowers I have seen of it are large, semi-globular, 

 very full ; best in the autumn. Colour — rosy carmine, 

 but the perfvuTie, this is glorious ; I kiiow of no rose that 

 can equal it. I am sorry I cannot show a photo of this 

 flower, as I cut my pot plants away for budding purposes, 

 and I had hoped the raisers would send me a represen- 

 tative flower to photograph, but they have not done so. 

 A truly grand flower, which everyone ought to, and will, 

 I am sure, grow when they know its good qualities and 

 g-lorious scent. The latest gold medal winner. 



Winter Berries. 



WINTER berried trees and shrubs are particu- 

 larly valuable as decorative subjects in gardens 

 and grounds surrounding the home because 

 of their attractiveness during the duller months of the 

 year. It is true that, owing- to the combined action of 

 frost and birds, the fruits in most cases will more or less 

 rapidly pass away, but still they will well repay the 

 expense and trouble of planting. Many of them, like the 

 Thorns, give a glorious display of flowers earlier in the 

 year, so that the later show of fruit is, as it were, " an 

 extra " — an additional gift of colour to the wise and 

 discriminating planter. 



Celastrus orbicula/us ( = C. articulatus) is a tall, hardy, 

 woody climber, a native of China and Japan. It has 

 small, greenish-white flowers that pass into globular 

 orange yellow fruit with crimson seeds. The fruits when 

 ripe open and show its brightly-coloured seeds, as is the 

 habit of spindle-trees. The fruits are hidden a good 

 deal by the foliage, but after the fall of the leaf the plant 

 presents a very handsome appearance. 



The cotoneasters are very effective winter shrubs, 

 with red or scarlet berries. C. rotundi/olia, a Himalayan 

 evergreen species four to five feet high, has bright, scarlet 

 berries that remain in fruit somewhat longer than the 

 other species. C. frigida, a native of Nepal, is almost 

 an evergreen. Its leaves are relatively large and the 

 berries very conspicuous. C. simonsii grows to a height 

 of eight to twelve feet. Its leaves are deciduous, and 

 the iruit abundant and attractive. C. viicrophylla (three 

 to four feet) is perhaps the best known of the species. 

 It is evergreen, and carries rather small, crimson berries. 

 A dwarf form of the species is much used for rockeries. 

 The Siberian crab (Pyrus bacaia) might be more ex- 

 tensively grown, as its handsome yellow fruit, tinged 

 with red, are most attractive. Another Pyrus, the Rowan 

 or Mountain Ash {P. aucuparia) is well worth growing. 

 Its bright clusters of berries, however, being: great 

 favourites with birds, disappear very early in the winter. 

 The Thorns (CratcEgis) give us a fine number of attrac- 

 tive fruiting subjects for the declining months of the 

 year. The scarlet haw (C. coccinea) and the Cockspur 

 thorn {C crus-galli), both natives of North America, 

 the fire-thorn (C. pyracantha), a popular subject for 

 walls, and C. carrierei^ a garden hybrid with handsome 

 berries, may be particularly mentioned as being easily 

 established and useful. The fruit of thorns seldom last 

 long in a hard winter, being a favourite food of birds. 

 Pernettyas are good, their fruits, varying in colour 

 from dark red to white, are able to withstand frost well. 

 Quite young plants produce flowers and fruits especially 

 if the roots are surrounded with peat. 



The strawberry trees (Arbutus) fruit well in warm 

 situations. A. unedo grows wild in the woods at Kil- 

 larney ; it is an evergreen, and forms large berries (two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter) of an orange-scarlet colour 

 which are edible when fully ripe. 



Hollies (Ilex) form a large group of abundantly berried 

 shrubs and trees. /. cumellice folia and /. Hvdgso)iiha,ve 

 yellow berries that remain on the branches for a long: 

 time. 



One of the very best plants either for poor soils in ex- 

 posed situations'or for planting close to the sea is the 

 sea buckthorn (Hippophce rhamnoides). Planters of this 

 shrub should remember that the shrubs are two-sexual, 

 and that to secure berries both male and female 

 individuals should be planted. The berries, -which are 

 orange yellow in colour, seem to be distasteful to' birds. 



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Nature helps every man to become that which he 

 desires to become. If he put forth no effort Nature 

 assumes his wish is to be a nobody, and grants his 

 prayer. — Hubbard. 



