ESSAY ON ROSE GROWING. 9! 



well-rotted cow manure may be used to great advantage 

 as a mulch, put on about the ist of September, and again 

 about March, as by that time that put on in September 

 will have become exhausted. Fumigating with tobacco 

 smoke for the suppression of the Aphis, (Green Fly,) 

 should be done twice a week; or, what will answer equally 

 well, a mulch of two or three inches of tobacco stems will 

 keep off the Green Fly for five or six weeks. 



VARIETIES TO FORCE. 



The varieties grown are changing every season, and 

 no list we can give to-day is likely to remain as the best 

 ten years hence. The favorite Tea Roses now grown 

 for winter are Perle des Jardins, (yellow,) Niphetos, 

 (white,) Catherine Mermet, (rosy pink,) Souvenir d'un 

 Ami, (delicate peach color,) Cornelia Cook, (white,) 

 Marshal Robert, (pale yellow,) Belle Allemande, (pink,) 

 Bon Silene, (carmine,) and Andrew Schwartz, (violet crim- 

 son.) 



There are still a number of the older sorts, such as 

 Safrano, Douglas, and Isabella Sprunt, yet grown; but 

 they are fast giving way to what are known as " fancy T ' 

 Roses, of which the yellow variety, Perle des Jardins, is 

 a type. A new sort, named 



SUNSET, 



a "sport" from Perle des Jardins, has just been orig- 

 inated with us. It is identical in every way with that 

 famous Rose, except that its color, instead of being a 

 canary yellow, as in the Perle des Jar dins, is a beautiful 

 orange shade of saffron, often seen in the shading of our 

 skies at sunset. For this reason I have given it the 



