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freeze tojjether and make a solid barrier against the inroads of 

 moles or mice. Such treatment will repay the trouble by a 

 magnificent display of flowers, coming into bloom quite early, 

 and continuing until late in the autumn. One of the hardiest of 

 this class for bedding is Gloire de Dijon. Sunset is an admirable 

 variety for this. ,Also Souvenir d' un Ami. Another is 

 Homer, a little gem and quite sturdy in constitution. Marie 

 Van Houtte is an admirable rose. Perle des Jardins, Mme. Lam- 

 bard, Mme. Berard, and Papa Gontier are also tine. We must 

 bear in mind that it is in this class that we find our yellow roses, 

 in which Hybrid Perpetuals and all Remontants are lacking. 

 When Gloire Lyonnaise was sent out in 1884 as a yellow hybrid, 

 it was hailed with eagerness as the missing color in that class, 

 but, alas ! it was a fraud in color. It is an exceedingly pretty 

 rose, of a pale lemon color with a tea fragrance. Some of the 

 Noisettes should be included in a bed of Teas, such as Celine 

 Forestier, pale yellow, fine and fragrant; and Mme. Caroline 

 Kuster, globular flower, pale yellow, and free. 



If the grounds devoted to roses are large enough, and one 

 portion is dry, and another is moist or stronger soil, the chances 

 of a o;ood summer and autumn bloom are far more certain. A 

 friend in Lexington who has a large collection of roses, with one 

 bed planted on high ground, where the soil is rather dry, cuts 

 his early crop of flowers from this bed, while from another bed 

 located on rather moist, tenacious soil, he had fine flowers late 

 this season, among them some of the finest blooms of "Ulrich 

 Brunner" I have ever seen. Frequent transplanting is also nec- 

 essary for successful culture. Plants that have stood in one 

 location for six or eight years, if lifted, the root and top cut 

 back severely, and replanted a little deeper than before will 

 soon come into fine condition again. 



We now come to the worst drawbacks to satisfactory rose 

 culture, viz. : Mildew, a peculiar disease caused by fungus, 

 Sphaerotheca pannosa, which, if neglected for a single day, 

 increases with wonderful rapidity. If the mildewed leaf of a 

 rose is put under a microscope, it will, says Mr. Worthington 

 G. Smith, be seen to be covered by thousands of threads of 

 mildew, each of which consists of eight or nine spores, which as 



