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Mr. Knowlton — Who are the buyers there, jobbers, retail- 

 ers or consumers? 



A. I perhaps cannot answer that, but I think I am correct in 

 my idea that they are both of them. If a retailer thinks it will 

 pay him he will go there. If a retailer thinks it will pay him in 

 Boston he goes to the auctions; I think it is likely the most are 

 jobbers, but there is nothing to restrict the retailer if he buys. 



HARDY ROSES— VARIETIES— CULTURE. 



Mr. Ernest Saunders, Lewiston's well-known florist, read a 

 finely prepared and instructive paper on hardy roses, treating of 

 their culture and varieties. Mr. Saunders said that our hardy 

 roses were supposed to winter without protection, but he had 

 found it to pay to protect even the hardiest varieties, especially 

 during winters like the present. Roses do not require a great 

 deal of protection, simply bending them down and covering with 

 brush and straw. 



Mr. Saunders named the following varieties which he had 

 grown and were to be recommended. In the red, the Gen, 

 Jacqueminot is the old stand-by, and is hard to beat. Fisher 

 Holmes, about the same color, but freer bloomer. Baron de 

 Banstotten is the best dark crimson rose he had ever grown, 

 and is about the color of the Black Prince, and by far the best 

 grower. 



In pink sorts Mrs. John Laing is a strong grower, free 

 bloomer and one of the most beautiful of the hardy roses. Paul 

 Neyron is another good grower and produces the largest flowers 

 of any rose grown. Mme. Gabriel Luiyet, Baroness Rothschild 

 and Magna Charta, are also very good varieties. 



In white the Margaret Dickson is a strong grower and pro- 

 duces beautiful large blossoms. Mrs. Cleveland is also a good 

 white rose, delicately tinted with pink. Mme. Plantier is an- 

 other good grower and profuse bloomer in June but is not a 

 perpetual. Caroline Marinesse is a profuse bloomer but flowers 

 are small. 



Mr. Saunders said he' had not been able to find a good per- 

 petual yellow rose, but the two best varieties tried were Harrison 

 yellow and Persian yellow, profuse June bloomers. 



