218 ANNUAL REPORT 



The best tea rose is the Catharine Mermet, a creamy, pinkish 

 white. This is the great historian's favorite. 



A lovely purplish rose with a fruity fragrance is the Aline Sisley. 



The Adam is a delicate double flower, but a profuse bloomer; 

 color a light pink. 



The Countess de la Barthe, a creamy pink; very fine. 



Madam Lambard, a deep pink. 



Captain Christy resembles the Victor Verdier in growth of bush.. 

 It is a large rose, of a delicate white pink color, very rare and 

 choice. It has a marked expression of its own among a collection 

 of plants, from its peculiarity of blooming from the terminal bud. 



The best white hybrid perpetual is the Mabel Morrison. 



Mr. Brady showed me at his own place what seemed to me to 

 be a remarkable growth from budding of the rose. This was a 

 Dev^oniensis worked on a branch of the Solfaterre about four feet 

 from the ground. The bud was inserted about the middle of 

 August. On the 18th of September, when I saw it, the branch 

 grown from this bud had twenty-one well developed flower buds 

 on it.and one open bloom. Ordinarily the Devoniensis is a weak 

 grower, but on this stock it is rank and vigorous. The flower is 

 creamy white and very large, sometimes four inches across its face» 

 and the petals are of great substance. It is known as the Magno- 

 lia rose, from its large size and sweet heavy fragrance. 



Mr. Brady has grown the Solfaterre one hundred feet long. 



In the course of some manual lessons he gave me in budding the 

 rose, I asked him what we could use to advantage for stocks in 

 Minnesota to increase our list of garden roses by budding. 



" You have the Sweet Briar in your country? " 



"Yes." 



" It is a free seed-bearer with you? " 



'' Yes." 



'^ Grow seedlings from it. Put away the seeds in damp sand in 

 the fall. Plant them out in the spring. When they are sufficiently 

 grown, bud into them near the ground, as low down as you can 

 work them. These stocks are hardy and vigorous and will not 

 sucker from the roots." 



In a note received from Mrs. Isaac At water, who furnished the 

 excellent paper on roses at our winter meeting in January, 1881, 

 her note being written in reply to an invitation to write us another 

 paper, this lady says: 



''If you have a discussion on rose culture do please insist on 

 the absolute necessity of the close pruning of remontant roses. 



