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we see so beautifully and extensively displayed in our florists' windows, 

 and, of course, all lovers of flowers must have them in their yards. 

 These varieties principally are the Bride, Bridesmaid, Madame Caroline 

 Testout, K. A. Victoria, American Beaut}', Papa Gontier, La France, 

 Perle des Jardins, Souv de President Carnot, and Belle Siebrecht, all 

 of which will give excellent results outside in this vicinity. Other very 

 popular varieties for general planting are Saf rano, Eainbow, Mphetos, 

 Sunset, White La France, Marie Van Houtte, Madame Lambard, Maman 

 Cochet, Madame Hoste, Emperor de Moroc, Paul Neyron, Isabella 

 Sprunt, and Viscountesse Folkestone ; in fact, it is hard for me to bring 

 this list to a close, as there are so many favorites. In climbers there 

 are Marechal Kiel, La Marque, Cloth of Gold, Climbing La France, 

 Climbing Niphetos, Climbing Perle, Glorie de Dijon, Glorie de Margot- 

 ion, Reve d'Or, Reine Marie Henrietta, Wm. Allen Richardson, Bank- 

 sias, and Beauty of Glazenwood. 



The last named is a beautiful thing when it gets several years' 

 growth on it. The hybrid perpetuals and mosses I have almost excluded 

 from the list, as the call for them is limited. Crimson Rambler is 

 now used very extensively as a pot plant for forcing for Easter. There 

 are other exceptionally fine old varieties which are practically unknown 

 to the rose lover of to-day, and which should be in every collection, such 

 as Adam, Souvenir d'un Amie, Eliza Savage, Bougcre, La Sylphide, 

 Shirley Hibbard, Madame Willermoz, Rubens, Devoniensis, and many 

 others that I might mention. 



The demand for field-grown roses Avas never greater than it is at 

 the present time; in fact, it is almost impossible to get a list of any size 

 of the popular varieties from any of the principal growers late in the 

 season, they being sold out of most of them. One reason for this is that 

 the trade, that is, I mean the retail dealers, are fast learning that they 

 can buy a much larger and stronger plant for less money than they pos- 

 sibly can grow it for in their small yards, to say nothing of the better 

 isfaction it will give their customers. Also, that the small roses 



rrown m the east and sent out here by mail at seemingly a very small 

 :e have proven to be anything but satisfactory, and dear at any price, 



is very few of them live or ever give satisfaction, and the general rose 

 buyers are fast learning that they are not to be compared with thor- 

 oughly-ripened California field-grown stock. Another reason is that 

 ' can grow any of the tender sorts here without any protection, which 

 >t be done in any other state; hence our market is not confined to 

 state alone, but they are shipped over the entire coast, and I think 

 e time not far distant when they will he grown here in large quanti- 

 ty for the eastern market, for already many have been shipped there. 



There are also a great many used for greenhouse forcing, as I have pre- 



