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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



s FLOWERS 



THE ROSES OFFERED TO MEMBERS FOR 1889. 



Bv F. Mitchell, Innekkip, Ont. 



A FEW notes on the roses offered in 

 the plant distribution list for the 

 coming year would perhaps be of interest 

 to some of the readers of The Horti- 

 culturist. It will be noticed that three 

 varieties are offered from which a selec- 

 tion can be made. 



Paul Neyron is now perhaps as well 

 known as any hybrid perpetual, but it is 

 in so many particulars such a thoroughly 

 good rose that the knowledge of it should 

 be disseminated still farther. The only 

 weak points this rose has is that it is 

 slightly coarse in its coloring and form, 

 and the wood if exposed is liable to win- 

 ter kill. But to offset this, there is, in the 

 first place, its enormous size — and des. 

 pite all the lauding which newer varieties 

 are receiving, and though many votaries 

 have turned from it to newer idols, which 

 they seem to see through magnifying 

 eyes, it really holds its place to-day as 

 the largest rose ever produced. In addi- 

 tion to this it is moderately fragrant, a 

 rank grower, an autumnal bloomer, and 

 in addition to its being a good all-round 

 rose for the open ground, it is a first-class 

 rose as a pot plant in the conservatory. 

 The color is deep rose. 



Baron DE BoNSTETTEN is a magnificent 

 rose. The color is maroon, blazed with 

 crimson. It is of good size, fragrant, and 

 of fine form. It is the hardiest and is the 

 most easily managed of all of the very 

 dark roses. It is not a good autumnal 

 bloomer, but at its best, in June, it is 

 often the grandest sight in the whole rose 

 garden. 



Gabriel Tournier, the other variety 

 offered, is a rather later arrival than either 



of the others. It is not so conspicuous 

 or noticeable an object in a garden of 

 roses as either of the other varieties, not 

 being of unusal size or extreme in color, 

 but at the same time it has so many good 

 points that it is valued very highly 

 by experienced rose growers. The color 

 is deep rose (not red, as some catalogues 

 have it) ; it is very fragrant, of fine form, 

 a very prolific bloomer in the early sum- 

 mer, and also blooms freely in the 

 autumn. Its only weak point (and what 

 rose, or human being either, has not one 

 at least) is, that in rare, particular states 

 of the atmosphere, the buds will not open 

 fully. The plant is of a strong, long and 

 willowy growth. 



All the three varieties which have been 

 placed upon the distribution list are good 

 free growers, and require less coaxing 

 and petting than many other varieties de- 

 mand, and yet rank quite as high in the 

 scale of general merit and value as these 

 more capricious and exacting sisteis. 



A WHITE GLOXINIA. 



Out of a batch of seedling Gloxinias this 

 past summer, I had one which bore 

 blooms of the finest white. Although I 

 had never before seen a white Gloxinia, I 

 did not know the rarity of such a flower 

 until I happened to read an article in the 

 American Florist by an experienced grow- 

 er (William Falconer), in which the writer 

 says he never saw a white Gloxinia, 

 though at the same time he says that an 

 English firm claim to have produced such 

 a flower. Mine is of the finest, most 

 snowy white. It is of the erect form, and 

 bears the blooms well above the foliage 

 on long and strong stems. 



