178 The Flower Garden 



times attacked with green lice. They may be treated 

 with tobacco in some of its forms, or with hot water 

 dipping the entire plant in a pail of water heated 

 to 130. I prefer the hot-water treatment, as it 

 leaves the plant clean and invigorated. Few, if any, 

 plants are injured by it, and most are benefited. 

 Where there is any question of the effect on a partic- 

 ular plant a single branch may be dipped as an experi- 

 ment. It is difficult to make any choice of Roses 

 where all are so beautiful. American Beauty is prob- 

 ably the most popular crimson Rose to-day. The 

 Bride stands first among the whites. Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria is a most desirable hardy white, and 

 the new rose, Virginia R. Coxe also offered under 

 the name of Gruss an Teplitz is one of the most 

 desirable reds; a profuse and constant bloomer with 

 loose-petalled, medium-sized flowers of the richest 

 scarlet, shading to glowing velvety crimson. Among 

 the climbers Mrs. Robert Perry is the finest, an im- 

 mense, pure, creamy white, quite hardy, and a free 

 and constant bloomer, valuable for cut flowers. 



If one has room for a hundred varieties it is easy 

 to select that number with the certainty that there 

 need not be a poor Rose among the number. 



