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The Hybrid Tea class are so subject to black 

 spot and mililew that they cannot (except varie- 

 ties mentioned) be trusted to open air culture. 

 Lady Mary Fitzwilliam. when it does perfect 

 itself, combines as many charms as are to be 

 round in any one Rose. 



The time was when anything in the shape of a 

 Rose would be taken without question, but that 

 day has gone by. Intelligent amateurs demand 

 Uoses of merit, and they don't want any more 

 brambles and thorns with high sounding names 

 attached: they demand the best we have to offer. 

 It is a notorious fact that the neai-er worthless 

 a variety the greater the ease In propagating, 

 and somehow the poorer the variety the larger 

 the stock on hand, in many cases. Let us have 

 the nerve and courage to increase the dump 

 heap, by emptying our houses of worthless kinds. 



Of the Hybrid Perpetual section we simply 

 offer a short list of the newer sorts which are 

 certainly worthy of trial: Queen of Queens, this 

 is almost as free as our would-be American 

 Beauty; beautiful in form and of a light silvery 

 rose color. Ulrieh Brunner, not a new Rose, but 

 one that deserves to be better known. Mad. 

 Joseph Desbois, a most beautifully formed, full 

 Rose, almost pure white in color, a promising 

 variety. Ella Gordon, a finely formed scarlet 

 crimson. This can be recommended for its 

 adaptability to pot culture. Pride of Reigate, 

 striped and flaked cream on a crimson ground. 

 Mrs. John Laing is perhaps the very freest bloom- 

 ing Rose in the class: color, a silvery rose pink, 

 very sweet. Marshall P. Wilder, one of the very 

 finest Roses of its class, and destined to become 

 popular the world over. Color cherry crimson, 

 of good size and free flowering in the autumn. 



Best Varieties for Forcing. Perle des Jardins 

 has no equal as a yellow Rose for indoor culture. 

 Niphetos is the best and most profitable white. 

 ZjH France and Catharine Mermet occupy 

 eiiual honors among pink varieties. The Bnde, 

 a most excellent white, and next to Niphetos 

 should be extensively grown. It would be well 

 to give Pierre Guillott further trial, for with 

 some it shows especial claims for winter work. 

 Papa Gontier is excellent from October until 

 March, but flimsy and open in the intervals be- 

 tween those dates; will supercede Bon Silene in a 

 largo measure, as it is larger in size and of deeper 

 color. Sunset is destined to grow in favor. 



Madam de Watteville and Madam Gabrielle 

 Drevet might be classed as twin Roses, differing 

 in color, however; both beautiful and charming, 

 but they will not furnish buds enough. 



Countess de Freigneuse has two notable defects; 

 one is, the outer petals invariably come crimped 

 and defective in color. Secondly, it has a crook 

 in the stem just below the bud; it forces well, 

 and no one but likes its color, a yellow. 



W. F. Bennett, with many a most disappointing 

 failure. It is quite evident we do not keep the 

 roots of our Bennetts right, and herein lies our 

 tri luble. When it does well it is profitable. 



American Beauty. This variety is all that could 

 be desired for market purposes in the spring 



A QOOO AND SIMPLE FUMIGATOR. 



season, and when good prices can be had gi-ow 

 it for cut flowers, but not otherwise. 



Puritan. The same remarks apply to Puritan 

 in measure that we have cited against American 

 Beauty. Unless a good figure can be gotten for 

 the flowers, Rose growers in the smaller towns 

 and cities have no special business to f)ccupy 

 too much space with it, but we most emphatically 

 recommend the Rose to growers in or near the 

 large trade centers, for it is a Rose of unques- 

 tioned merit and destined to make a mark for it- 

 self where Hybrid Roses are wont to be used. It 



is subject to black spot, but this perhaps will be 

 overcome by good cultivation and growing it 

 on its own roots or some more suitable stock. 



Luciole. This is a seedling from Red Saf rano, 

 of splendid color, strongly scented, free in bloom, 

 forces freely and a most promising variety. 

 Color a soft crimson shaded with golden yellow. 



FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 

 A Study in Gardening. The drawing (made 

 on the Huiniewell Place, near Boston.) repre- 

 sents a trapezium of ground about ii rods 

 wide b.v Ii or 7 rods in average breadth, and 

 bounded on two sides by an evergreen hedge, 

 and on the other two by deciduous trees and 

 shrubs. This plat is entered from the north, a 

 gravel walk 4 or !> feet wide traversing the en- 

 closure. Inside the walk is a plain lawn, and also 

 ( in the north and east sides, but the west and south 

 sides (BB) are flower borders. Dwarf evergreens 

 are planted here and there in the western border, 

 and also on the northern lawn. Among the ever- 

 greens Abutilons, Lantanas Rublier Plants and 

 Hibiscuses are clustered around, while Salvias, 

 Hollyhocks, Zinnias and others of the taller 

 annuals and herbaceous perennials are massed 

 next to the hedge, and smaller plants next to the 

 walk. But the greatest beauty of this garden 

 was no doubt the close evergreen screen on the 

 west and north, and the copse on the east gave 

 at least six week.s' longer enjoyment of its beau- 

 ties than if it had been entirely exposed. The 

 carriage drive was only a few feet distant, yet 

 such was the closeness of the Purple Beeches, 

 etc., between, that one could pass and not sus- 

 pect the garden. The evergreen walk on the 

 north (at top of engra\-ing), from which the 

 garden was entered, was formed by an additional 

 hedge.— Ohio Farmer. 



A Good Fnmigator. I look on a complicated 

 f umigator as perfectly useless where large num- 

 bers of houses are to be smoked; professional 

 gardeners in general despise them. An old sieve 

 answers much better; but the accompanying 

 figure will give an excellent idea of a fumigator 

 not often met with, although one of the very 

 bestcontrivancesextant. Itis made of wrought- 

 iron, and of any size from 1 foot to 3 feet in di- 

 ameter. When the tobacco is once lighted it 

 burns quite freely without any blowing, and 

 gives off a dense volume of smoke in a remark- 

 ably short time. It is easily set at work by 

 placing a few glowing embei-s from the stoke- 

 hole Are on the bottom and sprinkling damp 

 Tobacco. When fairly alight the fumes may be 

 cooled by spreading a damp sheet of coarse 

 tiffany over the handle, letting it fall loosely 

 aroinid the sides. The last precaution is worth 

 adopting in the ca.se of Ferns when throwing up 

 their young fronds, or for such Orchids as Odon- 

 toglossums and Masdevallias, both being apt to 

 be injured by hot smoke. The tenderest exotics 

 will bear the densest cloud of Tobacco-smoke 

 im'dginable, jirovidingitiscool. Itisheat.-notthe 

 narcotic, that injures.— Gardening Illustrated. 

 Large Raisin Consumers. The United States 

 is the largest consuming country of Raisins in 

 the world. Reliable authorities estimate the con- 

 sumption at about 2.000.000 boxes of about 

 twenty-two pounds each, which, at an average 

 of $2 a box, shows an expenditure of $4,000,000 

 per annvira for one article in the dried fruit line. 

 The amount referred to represents, say 1,000,000 

 boxes Valencia, 7.')O,0UO boxes California. 2.000.C00 

 boxes Malaga, and 100,000 boxes Smyrna. The 

 crop of the world for the present season is esti- 

 mated, in round numbers, at 0,500,000 boxes, 

 about as follows : Valencia, 3.000.000 bo.\es ; Mal- 

 aga. liOO.OCO boxes : California. 7.50;000 boxes ; and 

 Smyrna, 2.000,1X10. The shipments of Valencia 

 Raisins to this Country to date are .500,000 boxes, 

 300,0011 of which are now afloat.— Chicago Times. 

 To Make a Quick Lawn. Our little patch of 

 about seven scpiare rods was, in part, an old cel- 

 lar hole where a building had been removed. The 

 hole was filled at the bottom wth rubbish and in- 

 ferior soil and gravel. The tof) two feet was good 

 garden soil. After filling and leveling off to a 

 desirable grade, fertilizer was sown on broadcast 

 at the rate of about 12 jiounfls per square rod. A 

 few refuse wood ashes wei-e also sown, and the 

 whole cultivated thoroughly 2 to 3 inches deep 

 with a hand cultivator. Plain Timothy and Red- 

 top seed, about :*l cents worth, or $1 worth per 

 acre, wa-s then sown freely, going over the 

 ground twice each way to insure e\en .-owing. 

 We also put on 3 or 4 (fuarts of Oats before cul- 

 tivating the liust time. Grass seed is cheap now ; 

 Redtop a little over $2 for a sack of a bushels, and 



Timothy only $2.75 per bushel. Oiu' lawn was 

 seceded the loth da.v of September, and in just ;i4 

 days, October 13. the scythe wjis run o\'er it to 

 cut off the oats, which were from 12 to Hi inches 

 high, and had begun to look a little too hea\y 

 and shady for the best good of the gra-ss, which 

 measured 3 inches high at that lime, and was .so 



ExrLANATloN.— ^1 A A, Ameriran Arbor vitev hedyc I" 

 feet high. B, border of flowers and dwarf errrrirerns, 

 D, earriage drive, G, gravel, L,Iawn, 



A STUDY IN GARDENING, 

 thick, gi'een and handsome as lawn glass that no 

 one not having seen the work go on, and kept 

 the dates in mind, woidd believe it was not a lawn 

 of several months' standing. Done rightly at 

 the right time, a bare spot can soon be covered 

 with a carpet of green.— N. E. Farmer. 



Sweet Winter Flowers. The Allium Neapoli- 

 tan hsis given me good satisfaction for bloom in 

 winter. I treated mine just the sjime as Frccsias, 

 both winter and summer; in fact, I believe like 

 them, they may be potted at anj- time, just ac- 

 cording as >'(ni want them to come into bhiorn. I 

 repotted them this .year the first week in October: 

 la,«t year not until November, perhaps the middle 

 of the month. They soon put up their tinj- heads. 

 I plant a goodly number of the small bulbs in a fi- 

 inch pot. They bloom so well, and never fail to 

 blooni, in such fine clustei's of flowers, |>ure whiti', 

 and dainty enough to set Iwfore a queen. When 

 they have done blooming, and perfect their 

 growth, beginning to show signs of wanting to 

 rest. I withhold water, and when dry I remi i\ e 

 them to the cellar, there to remain until the next 

 fall. I woidd not be without these sweet things, 

 and fhc.v lu-e not expensive.- Floral Instructor. 



About Tomato Culture. Our favorite Tomato 

 this year, as last, has been the Mikado. Tla- fruit 

 is not all fierfectly smooth, but it is so much 

 larger than any other kinds, and so early, it gives 

 the most money. Wc are in great need of seeds 

 saved from the.se finest specimens of the Mikado. 

 Wc saved enough oui-selves to make perhaps a 

 quarter of a poinid from the best specimens. It is 

 a pretty hard matter to take your very largest, 

 finest, and most beautiful Tomato early in ilie 

 seas(m, and facrifice it for the seed: but when 

 you do it, you have got soiue seed that will pxib- 

 ably be worth soiuithing. Judging from our cx- 

 lierience in Tomatoes this last season, I should 

 dislike to take a fi\e-dollar bill for that (piarter 

 of a pound. Almost everybody else complaimcl 

 that they coidd not raise Tomatoes. We had an 

 enoimous crop. While Tomatoes were rotting 

 for everybody else, ours did not rot aimrticle; 

 and as they were on the creek bottom, they suf- 

 fered comjiaratively little from drought. One 

 thing may hax e counted in our favor re.>-pecting 

 freedom from rot. Early in the season, great 

 whopjiitig Tomato worms came in such numbers 

 that I directed one of the boys to make it his 

 business to carefully pick olf every wornj daily. 

 Just before the Tonuitoes came into bearing, the 

 worms became scarcer and .scarcer; and when 

 we gathered our fruit there was almost not a 

 worm.— (Jleanings in liec Culture. 



Spring Pruning for Grapes. A correspondent 

 of a Western paper ad\ ocates late Spring jirun- 

 ing as a guard against being caught by a late 

 frost. If pruned in the fall or winter, the cut 

 surfaces heal, and the whole sap force is early 

 in the spring directed to the buds and bearing 



