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any of our customers. For such is the 

 Jove for and pride to produce roses 

 that occasionally we have the busy 

 business man call in during fall just 

 to say that he &quot;cut one fine rose this 

 morning,&quot; and he is as proud of it as 

 if it was a baby arrived during the 

 wee sma hours, the unearthly time at 

 which Providence has usually ordained 

 these interesting domestic events to 

 occur. 



This summer in an open field far re 

 moved from the refreshing influence of 

 the hose and also the &quot;madding 

 crowd,&quot; on a piece of good light loam, 

 we have had a row of Perle des Jar- 

 dins, President Carnot and La France. 

 They have flowered continually and will 

 till 10 degrees of frost destroys their 

 tender growth. 



Before I enter on the two classes of 

 roses that are the main objects of this 

 article, as well as the plants of greatest 

 importance to the florist, I want to say a 

 word about the uses of some other classes 

 that we occasionally have to supply. 



The rose is spread over the entire 

 northern temperate regions of the 

 world, not so numerous in species in 

 North America as in Asia and Europe. 

 In this country they are found as far 

 south as Mexico. Over 200 species of 

 roses have been described, but there are 

 probably fifty species well defined, and 

 of varieties and hybrids of these many 

 species there are thousands. The culti 

 vator has done marvelous things with the 

 rose, and some of our cultivated varieties 

 are as far removed from the original 

 type as any deviation from nature in the 

 vegetable kingdom. Yet a few of the 

 original species are in cultivation and are 

 most useful plants. 



Noisette Roses. 





These were much oftener seen in our 

 northern greenhouses thirty years ago. 

 Since the introduction of the beautiful 

 tea varieties little attention is paid to 

 them, but in the private conservatory 

 they are fine plants for pillars and raft 

 ers. They are useless to us outside, but 

 where they do not get more than 15 de 

 grees of frost they must be grand plants, 

 as they are in our southern states. A 

 well-known nurseryman, Mr. Smith, of 

 Geneva, N. Y., who knows what a rose is, 

 and does not talk wildly, as many tour 

 ists do, told me that he believed northern 

 Texas was the most favored locality on 

 this continent for the rose, and that the 

 tea, Bourbon, and Noisette classes grew 

 there to the greatest perfection. 



The Noisette roses are easily propa 

 gated by cuttings from the half-ripened 

 wood at any time of year, either July or 

 January. They should be always planted 

 out in a well-drained border, for you 

 don t get their real beauty and worth 

 till they are a few years old. After 

 making a strong growth they should be 

 rested by less water and less syringing, 

 and before starting up again have the 

 weak shoots cut off and the side shoots 

 of the leading stems cut back to two or 

 three eyes. Winter, of course, would be 

 the natural time for them to rest, but by 

 starting into growth early in the spring 

 and resting in August and September you 



Rose Beauty of Glazenwood, Growing on a Great Dracaena in California. 



can get flowers during winter. Keeping 

 these roses clean of aphis and red spider 

 by syringing is the principal care. 



Well-known varieties of this class are 

 Marechal Niel, the magnificent golden 

 yellow rose; Solfaterre, a grand sulphur 

 yellow; Orphirie, a fine copper yellow; 

 Gloire de Dijon, a beautiful creamy am 

 ber; and old La Marque, the old white 

 rose that came in clusters with such luxu 

 riant, dark green foliage. Where these, 

 beautiful plants will do out of doors 

 there are many fine varieties. 



Moss Roses. 



Every one is fond of a moss rose. There 

 are now many fine varieties, and being 

 hardy they will thrive wherever the 

 hybrid perpetual class will do well. For 

 propagation refer to the hybrid per- 

 petuals. 



Lord Penzance s Sweet Briar. 



This is a new section, but they have 

 proved themselves the past winter per 

 fectly hardy. They are as sweet scented 



as the old English sweet briar and have 

 showy flowers. They are a great addi 

 tion *to our hardy flowering shrubs, and 

 will doubtless be much planted. Like the 

 hybrid perpetuals they can be propagated 

 from the half-ripened wood in sand, or 

 from the matured wood in autumn and 

 winter. 



Rosa Rugosa. 



Eosa rugosa is a distinct species (from 

 Japan) that is perfectly hardy. They 

 have thick wrinkled or curly foliage, very 

 distinct, with large, showy, single flowers 

 of white and pink, and are covered in 

 the autumn with large, conspicuous, red 

 fruit. Immense masses of these are now 

 planted and they make splendid low 

 plantations to the margins of taller 

 shrubberies. They are easily propagated 

 from young or matured wood. 



Hardy Climbing Roses. 



While in the more temperate parts of 

 our country the Noisette roses cannot be 

 planted, we must confine ourselves to the 



