SEVERAL GOOD ROSES FOR OUR PROVINCE. 



ers of roses in other parts of Ontario, 

 we have written to Mr. T. H. Race, of 

 Mitchell, to know how these varieties 

 succeed with him, and his reply here 

 appended, shows a different estimate of 

 the value of some of these varieties 

 arising no doubt from the difference in 

 soil and climate. Mr. Race writes : 

 " Replying to your inquiries regarding 



Jules Margottin, not so strong a grower, 

 nor so fine a bloomer and not so fine a 

 rose. It does not stand the'early spring 

 season well with me — the sunny days 

 and frosty nights after its winter cover- 

 ing has been removed. 



Mrs. John Laing is a strong grower, 

 needs good protection ; starts out well 

 as a bloomer but does not open all its 



Fig. 1264.— John Hopper. 



roses, 1 grow the Baron de Bonstettin 

 in a rich clay loam. It is not a great 

 wood producer, but is a free bloomer and 

 its blooming season continues from three 

 to four weeks With me it is the finest 

 of all the dark sorts though not quite so 

 strong a grower as its seedling they<frt« 

 Liabaud. 



John Hopper is not a great favorite 

 with me. I find it quite as tender as 



buds. Many of them wither away be- 

 fore opening. I do not consider it at 

 all equal to its parent Francois Michelon- 



Marshall P. Wilder does not do well 

 here It is not very hardy, not a strong 

 grower, and not a free bloomer. In fact 

 with me, Marshall P. Wilder in the 'gar- 

 den is a direct contradiction to Marshall 

 P. Wilder in the catalogues. 



Madame Gabriel Luizet has scarcely a 



