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the General McArthur and the Richmond 

 promise to excel it on both points and on 

 odour as well. The odour of the General 

 McArthur is very sweet. The great pro- 

 ductiveness of the Meteor wi'll be realized 

 when I state that one year the 1,400 plants 

 in this house averaged 33 btooms each. 



" One of the strongest points in favor of 

 the McArthur and Richmond varieties is 

 that they do not require as high a tempera- 

 ture by six or seven degrees as the Meteor, 

 which needs a temperature of 65 degrees at 

 night. The Richmond is being sent out 

 this season for the first time. It heard it so 

 highly spoken of last fall I visited the 

 greenhouses of the originator, in Richmond, 

 Indiana, especially to see it. We have grown 

 the General McArthur all season and find 

 it a favorite variety, its fragrance adding to 

 its popularity." 



On coming out of the first two green- 

 houses the representative of The Horticul- 

 turist became interested watching one of 

 Mr. Dunlop's employes grafting Bride and 

 Bridesmaid roses. " My method," said 

 Mr. Dunlop, " is to use Manetti stocks, 

 which are imported from England in the 

 fall. These are potted and kept in a cool 

 greenhouse till after New Year's. Some 

 of them are then bron2?ht into a warmer 



house to start growth. The scions are 

 splice grafted on the Manetti and placed in 

 a close grafting frame. For the first 10 

 days this frame is kept perfectly tight at an 

 average temperature of 80 degrees. For 

 the four following days about half an inch 

 of air is admitted. For the next two days 

 an inch of air is given, and then four inches, 

 of air is allowed in for two days. At the 

 end of 16 days the plants are given full 

 ventilation and they are ready to be moved 

 at the end of 18 days. This method greatly 

 increases the strength oif the plants." Some 

 plants, pointed out toy Mr. Dunlop, which 

 had been treated in this way, bore evidence 

 to the truth of the statement. 



" One of the . greatest stumbhng blocks 

 many growers encounter," continued Mr. 

 Dunlop, "is to retain the original foliage of 

 the American Beauty rose after the process 

 of rooting till growth starts. I have found 

 that it is best not to var}' the temperature 

 during the four weeks the cuttings are in 

 the sand. The cuttings are even potted in 

 the propagating house. They are kept in 

 the house where the grafting frames are 

 until growth starts, after wihich little diffi- 

 culty is experienced with them." 



The next greenhouses visited were seven 

 in one, there being no partitions between 



them. These 

 g r e e n ho uses, 

 which were 

 240 feet long, 

 prese n t e d a 

 lovely scene, 

 as they were 

 full of rose 

 plants, many 

 of which were 

 in bloom. The 

 first two 

 houses were 

 devoted to Am- 

 erican Beauty 

 roses and the 

 Monster Combined Greenhouses Where Mr. Dunlop Grows Some of His Roses remainder to 



