170 Maurice Bernardin Rose. 



and if none of the buds or young fruit are broken oft', all the vital pow- 

 ers of the tree will centre towards the full development of the fruit, to 

 the serious neglect of the crop of buds. 



An intelligent friend has a valuable apple tree, which yielded a 

 bountiful crop of apples once in two years. He expressed a desire that 

 pomologists could have sufficient skill to make that tree bear a mod- 

 erate crop of fruit every season, rather than a heavy crop one year and 

 nothing the next, as the variety was so excellent, they greatly desired a 

 small supply, at least, every season. He was assured that if he would 

 whip oft' all the blossoms on one half the tree-top, the portion defoliated 

 would yield a supply the next season. As he knew that if the tree 

 produced fruit on only one half the top, there would be more than his 

 family could make use of, he reluctantly tried the experiment, in the 

 success of which he cherished no confidence, and whipped off" every 

 blossom to be seen within the area of about half of the top. The result 

 was just as it always will be under similar circumstances ; there 

 was a supply of fruit, the following season, on that part of the tree 

 from which the blossoms had been removed, while the other portion of 

 the branches yielded no fruit. 



The same result could have been attained by whipping off* one half 

 or more of the blossoms over the entire tree. By removing the blos- 

 soms, the specimens of fruit would have been greatly lessened. Hence 

 the energies of the tree would have been adequate to the perfect devel- 

 opment of the limited crop, and also to the preparation of the fruit 

 buds for the crop of the succeeding season. 



MAURICE BERNARDIN ROSE. 



By Francis Parkman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



This fine Hybrid Perpetual is one of the very best of the numerous 

 brood of highly-colored roses which followed, and in great part resulted 

 from, the inti'oduction of General Jacqueminot. Its color is a deep crim- 

 son, approaching maroon. It is perfectly double, profuse in bloom, 

 and disposed to flower in clcisters. It is, besides, a good autumn 

 bloomer — a virtue by no means universal among the so-called " Perpet- 

 uals." It bears a New England winter reasona>bly well, though a cer- 



