THE ELIZA TAILBY ROSE. 41 



longer and have more substance than those of the Isabella Sprunt. 

 One florist paj^s Mr. Tailby two dollars per hundred more for buds 

 of this variety than for other kinds. 



The discussion was here interrupted by the fall of one of the 

 Paddock elms, which the society had in vain endeavored to save, 

 the members rising to witness the fall of the first of the veterans. 

 The president, as chairman of the committee to confer with the 

 committee of the City Council on Parks and Grounds, and protest 

 in the name of the society against their removal, made an informal 

 report that the committee had attended to that duty, and presented 

 the strongest arguments in favor of saving the trees, but without 

 effect. Marshall P. Wilder, who also appeared before the com- 

 mittee of the City Council to protest against the removal of the trees, 

 said that the committee of the society did their best to save them, 

 but he was thankful that there were still some left in the sacred 

 enclosure opposite. C. M. Hovey thought the removal of the 

 trees was not an unmixed evil, but in his opinion there might have 

 been five or six of the best spared. He disliked to see trees 

 destroyed, but thought that in cities they often, in narrow streets, 

 disfigured buildings. Many of those in the burying-ground oppo- 

 site should be removed as many had been at Mount Auburn. 



Marshall P. Wilder could see little difference between the buds of 

 Mr. Tailby's rose and those of the Isabella Sprunt, but did not wish 

 to be understood as detracting from the merit of the former. He 

 had been much struck by the character of the foliage of the Tailby 

 rose, as well as by its thornlessness. 



Mr. Barker remarked that the color of the Isabella Sprunt was 

 a little darker than that of the sport. 



Mr. Hovey said that sports generally differed but little in habit 

 from the parent, and that in this the difference was greater in the 

 foliage than in the flowers. 



Mr. Tailby said that all the buds had been longer than those of 

 Isabella Sprunt. It is more prolific than the Yellow Tea, and, he 

 thought, quite as beautiful. The florists prefer the color to that 

 of the Isabella Sprunt. He first noticed the difference in the 

 foliage and buds when round clipping buds. Many sports doubt- 

 less occur which remain unnoticed. 



