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appreciated. Lost Rubies has proven 

 a failure, or nearly so. 



The Gregg, among, blackcaps, is, at 

 the Rural Grounds, not hardy. The 

 berries are of the largest ; quality poor 

 It is late. The Ohio Blackcap gives 

 the strongest and tallest canes of any. 

 It is quite hardy. Berries rather small. 

 This is far from new, but it is not well 

 known. — Rural New-Yorker. 



[Note. — It is somewhat surprising 

 that the Gregg should not prove to be 

 hardy at the Rural New-Yorker experi- 

 ment grounds, when here, in the County 

 of Lincoln, so much further north, it is 

 only occasionally injured in exception- 

 ally trying winters. ~Ed. Can. Hort.] 



BAllONESS ROTHSCHILD AND MABEL 

 MORRISON. 



Among the many beautiful Hybrid 

 Perpetual Roses, one which has played 

 a conspicuous part for the last eighteen 

 years is Baroness Rothschild, which 

 was raised in France, in 1867. It is a 

 large, full and well made flower, cupped 

 form, and usually very symmetrical. 

 The color is a soft rose, or light pink. 

 It is a free bloomer, a vigorous grower, 

 and one of the hardiest of the Perpet- 

 uals. It is an excellent autumn 

 bloomer, and is highly prized as an ex- 

 hibition variety. Its one lack is a de- 

 ficiency of odor. The foliage of this 

 flower stands iip close around it, giving 

 it a fine setting. The fine form and 

 color, and the other good qualities of 

 this variety should secure it a place in 

 • very good collection of hardy Roses. 

 I>aroness Rothschild is distinguished 

 by the number of other fine sorts it has 

 given rise to as sports. One of these, 

 Mabel Morrison, has the characteristics 

 of growth and constitution of its par- 

 < nt, varingonly by its color. It is one 

 of the most desirable of the white, or so 



called white, Hybrid Perpetuals. The 

 flowers are beautiful in form, semi- 

 double, cup shaped, usually a creamy 

 white on first expanding, and then 

 changing to a delicately tinted shade of 

 rose, and in either aspect admirable in 

 the highest degree. In the close sett- 

 ing of the foliage around the flower, 

 Mabel Morrison even surpasses its par- 

 ent, and this habit is an attiaction of 

 great value. It originated in England 

 in 1878, and has not yet become known 

 as widely as it deserves ; one cause of 

 this is probably because it does not grow 

 freely from cuttings, and many profes- 

 sional rose growers in this country pro- 

 pagate in no other way. Some how- 

 ever, increase it, as well as several 

 other varieties, by budding on strong- 

 growing stocks, and in this way it 

 makes a very satisfactory plant, if pro- 

 perly cared for. — Vick's Magazine. 



LAWN GRASSES. 



As to the grasses best adapted to 

 soils and situations, it may first be said 

 that a wet soil is hardly to be consid- 

 ered as a fit situation for a lawn ; never- 

 theless there are places where a wet 

 condition of the soil cannot well be 

 avoided, and for such the best grasses 

 are Poa trivialis, or Rough-stalk 

 Meadow Grass, Alopecurus pratensis, 

 or Meadow Foxtail, and Agrostis vul- 

 garis, or Red-top. For average good 

 soil I have had the best results from a 

 seeding in about equal proportions, of 

 Poa pratensis, or Kentucky Blue Grass, 

 Festuca duriuscula^ or Hard Fescue, 

 Agrostis canina, or Creeping Bent, 

 Cynosurus cristatu^, or Crested Dog- 

 tail, and tlie Pacey Dwarf Rye Gi-ass. 

 The two last named are especially ad- 

 apted to light, dry soils, as they are 

 deep rooted and very fibrous, and will 

 continue green in the dryest of weather, 

 even when the Kentucky Blue is ap- 

 parently dead. 



It is a iirt'iit mistake to stint the 



