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T. Rubens. 



T. Sombreuil, finest late in the fall, after a few light frosts. 



T. Souv. d' Elise. 



H. Xavier Olibo. 



H. Mabel Morrison, considered by many the best white hybrid raised, 



Mr. Brady, the originator of tlie American Beauty, from whom 

 I got the most of my American roses, says you will get consider- 

 able bloom from them next summer ; and when of sufficient age 

 and growth to do their best, all of them, except a few of the hy- 

 brids, will bloom from spring till autumn frosts. Some of them 

 will be tender, and you will have to remove them to your cellar or 

 a cold frame for the winter. This will be true of nearly all the 

 teas, except Glorie de Dijon. This will grow in Greenland and 

 need no protection, and is a grand rose. The Souviner d' Elise is 

 another very rare and magnificent rose, lasting as cut-flower a long 

 time, and I doubt if you can get it in this country outside the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia. Several firms advertise it, but I hear another 

 rose is sent in its stead. 



I find that the richer the soil, and the more I water my roses> 

 the more bloom I get. It is a great mistake not to water roses. I 

 sprinkled mine thoroughly every evening last summer when it did 

 not rain, and they grew and bloomed splendidly. We had roses 

 every day after they commenced to bloom until heavy frost, about 

 the 4th of December. 



Elwanger's work on roses is probably the best on this subject 

 published in America, because it comes down to the present time. 

 His descriptions of roses are sometimes at fault as far as concerns 

 the locality, but as a general thing are very good. Parson's work 

 on the rose is very excellent, but is now out of print. I haye 

 Cranston's Rose Culture. It is a very good work, but less adapted 

 to this country than to England, where the Cranston Catalogue 

 and the work on rose culture are the nomenclature, the law and 

 the prophets, on roses in that country. 



At the present time there are very few first-class rosarians in 

 America, of whom we may be sure of getting the best plants true 

 to name. A firm doing business in Pennsylvania sends out a fat 

 catalogue reeking with the shallowest self-praise and the most fal- 

 lacious descriptions of roses and advice to rose-growers. They 

 state that they send out no rose except on its own root, and their 

 catalogue contains the names of roses that will not grow on their 

 own roots. They endeavor to inculcate the idea that they do bet- 

 ter on their own roots than when budded or erafted on the Man- 



