ROSES AND BEDDING PLANTS. 



HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSE. 



ROSES we place in two great divisions, HARDY and TENDER. The Hardy are those that 

 will endure the winters, say of Rochester, N. Y., or Boston, Mass., without protection, or with 



what we can easily furnish a little straw 

 or a few evergreen boughs. The Tender 

 Roses are those that will not endure a 

 Northern winter, while they do finely 

 South, and are those so desirable for house 

 plants. In each of these grand divisions 

 there are several classes, and in each class 

 a good many varieties. 



HARDY ROSES. The leading member 

 of this class is the Hybrid Perpetual, con- 

 taining hundreds of varieties, of different 

 habits. The flowers are generally of strong 

 colors, and appear abundantly in June, and 

 a few flowers are usually seen through the 

 summer and fall, especially if the plants 

 are cut back after the June flowering. If 

 the season should happen to be a little 

 moist, some of them will bloom almost as 

 well as the so-called monthlies. The 

 Climbing Roses are but few in number, and 

 flower in June. The Moss Roses bloom in June, and sometimes occasionally during the season. 



TENDER ROSES. The Tender Roses are the 

 Teas, Bourbons, Chinas and Noisettes. Their 

 flowers are delicate in color, voluptuous in ap- 

 pearance, and deliciously fragrant. Of course 

 these are hardy in the South and on the Pacific 

 coast, and are far preferable to all others. As 

 pot roses they are the only kinds worth growing. 

 The Teas are the most fragrant. The flowers 

 are usually large, and the colors soft and pleas- 

 ing, mostly white, straw and flesh, and the 

 combinations of these with pink or rose. They 

 are the tenderest of all the ever blooming roses, 

 and require a pit or cellar in winter. Bourbons 

 and Chinas are among the hardiest of the Ten- 

 der Roses, usually of dwarf habit or moderate 

 growth. In colors they are from white to deep 

 crimson, but embrace no yellows. The Noisettes 

 are valuable as climbers or for pillars, and nearly ; 

 all very fragrant, almost as much so as the 

 Teas, from which they are mostly hybrids. They 

 are quite tender, but where they will endure the 

 winter they form the finest specimens of all the 

 tribe of Roses. TEA ROSE. 



The most popular BEDDING PLANTS of the present clay are the FOLIAGE PLANTS and GERA- 

 NIUMS. Among the former may be found many forms resembling the luxuriant growth of the 

 tropics Ricinus, Cannas and Caladi^^ms. The numerous varieties of Coleus vary in color from 

 a pea-green and golden yellow to bronze, and some almost black. These, with a border of 

 Centattrea, or some other white leaved plants, form a pleasing sight. Where bright flowers 

 are wanted there is nothing that will take the place of the scarlet Geraniums. Single roots or 

 small clumps of Erianthus and Pampas Grass set in the lawn, make a very fine show. 



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