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ette or wild briar. This is simple uoiiseuse. Our best hybrids as 

 a general rule do much better worked on theManette or wild briar, 

 and many of the teas or monthly roses when on the Solfaterre. 

 More especially is this true of all the dwarf growers. It takes a 

 skilled workman to do budding or grafting successfully, but when 

 well done you get a better plant, stronger in growth, and will give 

 more and better bloom. Of course the budded ones must be 

 planted deeper, so as to cover the place of budding, and suckers 

 must be carefully watched for and removed as soon as they appear. 

 I Avill send you one of my Helene Pauls also. This is a new 

 white h3'brid and pronounced by Mr. Brady to be one of the best. 

 The following I would send you with the other list, but have only 

 one each and they cannot at present be duplicated here. They are 

 all very beautiful and grand roses: Alfred K. Williams, Compte 

 de Flanders, Duke of Feck, Mrae. Melaine Willernoz, Mme. Vidot, 

 Mme. Welsch, May Quennell, Mrs. Harry Turner, Mrs. Saxton, 

 Mrs. Jowitt, Paul Ricaut, Star of Waltham." 



LAW OF CROSS FERTILIZATION. 



We accept most fully the theory that the mother tree or plant 

 controls the form, hardiness and style of the offspring, while the 

 male (or staminate) tree or plant fixes the season and character of 

 the fruit or plant in a large degree. — James T. Johnsox, of War' 

 saw, in the Illinois Horticultural Report, 1881, page 187. 



That is to say, if we fertilize the blossom of the Duchess with 

 the pollen of the Walbridge, and plant the seed of the Duchess, 

 we might expect, (after making due allowance for the different 

 mixtures already in both kinds, from inheritance, but not appar- 

 ent, perhaps in either tree or fruit, but liable to crop out in the 

 progeny, as we see it in animal life) to find our seedling tree re- 

 semble the Duchess in form and hardiness, and its fruit like Duchess 

 in size, shape and color and like Walbridge in quality, late fall 

 growth and long keeping. 



The law described above by Mr. Johnson is the same as stated 

 by Mr. Peffer, and repeatedly verified by him in his experiments 

 with seedling apples. 



