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sweet, ricli, and of about the purest 

 flavor of any out-door gra})e in ordinaiy 

 cultivation. I saw it in Barrie last 

 year with the same characteristics, and 

 it seems the same in many parts of the 

 country. 



Was it the president of the American 

 Pomological Society who, a few years 

 ago, called it " the best grape in the 

 world f No : I think it was Mr. Barry 

 the chairman of the Committee on 

 Nomenclature of that Society. Let us 

 pass it along anyway as the Best Red 

 Grape in Canada. I will be uncom- 

 monly glad to hear of a better one, but 

 this is good enough for me. 



Poughkeepsie Red and Ulster Prolific 

 have not yet fruited with me. 



ANOTHER SEASON'S EXPERIENCES 

 WITH THE ROSE. 

 Mr. Editor, — Notwithstanding that 

 former remarks made by me, through 

 the medium of the HorticulturiHt, on 

 the " Rose," received some gentle stric- 

 tures from the pen of a much respected 

 friend of mine— Mr. Gott, of Arkona, 

 I still hold as warm and loyal allegi- 

 ance as ever to the queen of flowers. 

 In fact I find that another season's 

 added experience and association has 

 but adde^l to and deepened my craze 

 (if craze it is^ for this (as I still claim 

 it to be) the most beautiful of all 

 flowers. I will, however, with as little 

 efiervescence as possible give a few 

 notes on my experience the past season 

 with the rose. For the hardiest kinds 

 of out-door roses the season has been 

 a very good one, while for tender sorts 

 and for all kinds which are liable to 

 mildew it has been very unfavorable. 

 All red Colomb, General Jacqueminot, 

 and Fisher Holmes, among the reds, 

 fully sustained the reputations which 

 I accorded them last season, while 

 General Washington exceeded anything 

 which I have ever given it credit for. 

 It bore blooms (and grand ones) the 



whole season through, from June until 

 severe autumn frosts. I am still, how- 

 ever, of the same oj)inion as formerly, 

 that Alfred Colomb is the fin(^st, most 

 relia])le, and the most valuable rose of 

 its color which I have tested. Another 

 red rose which made a most remarkable 

 and beautiful disi)lay with me early in 

 the season was Maurice Bernardin. I 

 have only one bush of this variety, and 

 it is rather a small one, but i have 

 counted nearly a hundred fine blooms 

 on it at one time. 



Among the pink or rose colored. La 

 France, Paul Neyron, and Marquise de 

 Castellane, again proved themselves 

 worthy of all the i^raise I have ever 

 given them, while Fran9ois Michelon 

 has this year proved itself quite worthy 

 of a place with this former-mentioned 

 beautiful trio. 



.Baroness Rothschild far exceeded 

 anything it ever did before. I have 

 formed a more favorable opinion of it 

 than I ever held before. In cold, damp 

 seasons like the past one, I think it 

 will prove a valuable rose. 



Among the white roses, the White 

 Baroness has this year carried off* the 

 palm. It is not quite white, but its 

 symmetrical blooms were so entranc- 

 ingly beautiful, that even sensible, mat- 

 ter-of-fact visitors who came to see it, 

 and who profess to be quite above little 

 weaknesses which I am marred with, 

 were sometimes almost tempted to fall 

 down and give it a little idolatrous 

 worship like myself, I wish my gentle 

 critic of Arkona had been there, and I 

 think he would have forgiven me for 

 getting off* the solid earth occasionally 

 when speaking of the rose. Madam 

 Noraan, Eliza Boelle, and any of this 

 tenderest type of the hybrid noisette 

 family, were hardly up to the standard 

 of former yeai-s. The season, I think, 

 was too cold for them. I think this 

 will prove a particularly valuable class 

 of roses in dry and hot seasons. I find 



