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ing and apply the hellebore solution before any mischief 

 has been done and repeat later, should any evidences of 

 his presence be detected. This aggressive offender is 

 the larva of a small winged moth, and the presence of 

 any ins<=ct of this sort in the vicinity of a Rose should 

 always be regarded with suspicion. 



The bark louse, or white scale, survives the winters 

 and is usually found on old wood. It can best be treated 

 before the growth begins in the spring. A solution of 

 fifteen grains of corrosive sublimate to one pint of 

 water, brushed over the stalks wherever the lice harbor, 

 will speedily destroy all. As corrosive sublimate is a 

 very powerful poison, gi-eat care should be taken in its 

 use. 



List of Roses that have been tested by the writer and 

 can be recommended for gardens: 



Hybrid Perpetual iJose*".— Alfred Colomb, Alfred K. 

 Williams, Annie Wood, Baroness Rothschild, Captain 

 Hayward, Caroline d'Arden, Charles Lefebvre, Clio, 

 Countess of Oxford, Dinsmore, Dr. Andry, Duke of 

 Edinburgh, Duke of Teck, Etienne Levet, Eugenie 

 Verdier, Fisher Holmes, Francois Michelon, General 

 Jacqueminot, Giant of Battles, Heinrich Schultheis, 

 Her Majesty, James Brownlow, Jeannie Dickson, John 

 Hopper, James D. Paul, Lady Helen Stewart, Mabel 

 Morrison, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Magna Charta, 

 Marchioness of Lome, Margaret Dickson, Marie Bau- 

 mann, Marie Verdier, Merveille de Lyon, Mrs. John La- 

 ing, Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford, Paul Neyron (Fig. 

 2169), Pride of Waltham, Prince Arthur, Prince Camille 

 de Rohan, Rosslyn, Rev. J. B. M. Camm, Suzanne 

 Marie Rodocanachi, Ulrich Brunner, Xavier Olibo. 



Hybrid Tea.— Augustine Guinoiseau, Captain Christy, 

 Caroline Testout, Gloire Lyonnaise, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, Madame Joseph Combet, Miss Ethel Richard- 

 son, Souvenir du President Carnot, Souvenir de Madame 

 Eugenie Verdier, Viscountess Folkestone. 



Mr. Alexander B. Scott recommends the following 

 additional H. T. varieties: Antoine Rivoire, Baldwin, 

 Bessie Brown, Gruss an Teplitz, Killarney, Lady Clan- 

 morris, Madame Jules Grolez. 



Tea-scented Boses. — A\\iho-aiie Karr, Comtesse Riza du 

 Pare, Duchesse de Brabant, Etoile de Lyon, Francisca 

 Kruger, Innocente Pirola, Isabella Sprunt, Madame 

 Lambard, Madame Moreau, Maman Cochet, Madame 

 Joseph Schwartz, Marie van Houtte, Papa Gontier, Sa- 

 frano. Souvenir d'un Ami, The Queen, White Maman 

 Cochet. 



Moss Bases. — Comtesse deMurinais, Blanche Moreau, 

 Crimson Globe, Laneii, Princess Adelaide. 



Climbing i?oses. — Crimson Rambler, Cheshunt Hy- 

 brid, Gloire de Dijon, Celine Forestier, Reine Marie 



2180. The old-fashioned yellow upright Rose (X K). 



Henriette, Pink Microphylla, White Microphylla, Madame 

 Alfred Curriere. 



Hybrid Siveetbriers. — Amy Rohsart, Annie of Geier- 

 stein, Brenda, Catherine Seyton, Edith Bellenden, Flora 

 Mclvor, Green Mantle, Jeannie Deans, Julie Mannering, 



Lady Penzance, Lord Penzance, Lucy Ashton, Lucy 

 Bertram, Meg Merrilies, Minna, Rose Bradwardine. 



The Hybrid Wichuraianas look promising, but have 

 not been tested by the writer. 



It is not intended that this list is by any means com- 

 plete. There must be many good Roses that will do well 

 under favorable conditions of which the writer has no 

 personal knowledge. The collection is sufficiently large. 



cheerfully 



however, for a beginning, and any one 

 who has the time, energy and means may 

 add to it, if he can bear disappointment 

 If one in a dozen of the highly lauded va- 

 rieties in the dealers' catalogues prove satisfactory, the 

 experimenter should be well satisfied. He can dig out 

 and throw away the other eleven and try it again, in the 

 hope that he may find a new queen worthy of his hom- 

 age. 



Much of the charm of growing Roses is derived from 

 the accurate knowledge of each variety by name. Yet 

 few amateurs ever accomplish this, chiefly because the 

 labels have been lost or misplaced, and not infrequently 

 a plant becomes known to the cultivator by a name be- 

 longing to a neighboring specimen whose label has been 

 misplaced, and replaced on the wrong plant. To obviate 

 this a record should be made in a book kept for the pur- 

 pose, with a chart for each bed. This should be done at 

 once after the plants are set out and before the labels 

 have become detached. Many vexatious mistakes might 

 be prevented by some such plan as the following: 



20 18 16 14 12 



1 to 6. Her Majesty, 



7 to 12. Margaret Dickson, 



8 to 15. Gloire Lyonnaise, 

 16 to 20. White Baroness. 

 Robert Huey. 



Garden Roses near Chicago. — Climatic conditions 

 surrounding the bluff lands bordering Lake Michi- 

 gan, some twenty miles north of Chicago, are not 

 congenial to the successful cultivation of outdoor Roses 

 as a class, and only those possessing the most robust 

 constitution among the Hybrid Perpetuals should be 

 grown. Ami>le winter protection must be given along 

 the lines iiulicatcd in the article in this work entitled 

 Winter Protection. The soil is all that could be de- 

 sired, being a rich yellow clay loam. The trouble seems 

 to be in the severity of the winters, where heavy falls 

 of snow are infrequent, and flie springs late and fickle, 

 warm winds from the southwestern jirairies alternating 

 with chilling moisture-laden breezes from the lake. 



The beds are excavated to a depth of 2 ft., good 

 drainage given, and then filled with a compost of rotted 



