100 The Tennessee or Prairie Rose. 



varieties of perpetual bloom, and of all colors, which I feel 

 confident we shall in a few years, can anything be im- 

 agined more beautiful than plantations and gardens thus 

 enclosed and divided 7 in summer constant bloom and fra- 

 grance, — in winter scarcely less brilliant with its beautiful 

 umbels of scarlet fruit. 



I have not yet learned that this rose has been adopted 

 for fencing in the Prairies of the west, where it is every 

 where to be found, and where it is so much needed — 

 although we hear so much of hedges of the Cherokee rose 

 in the south, where from its tenderness, it can only be used. 



From a hedge of about 40 feet I have something like 2\ 

 bushels of heps or berries, which I shall sow for the pur- 

 pose of raising a stock for hedging — and I hope to have 

 them for sale by the thousand next fall. I also intend to 

 forward to your care in a few days, a dozen papers of clean 

 seed for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, to be dis- 

 tributed to such persons as are disposed to make experi- 

 ments on it for the purposes of live fences ; and I should 

 like to do the same to any of our Horticultural Societies 

 who will provide the means of getting them forwarded 

 without any expense to me. Yours, (£c. 



Joshua Peirce. 

 Nursery at LimicBan Hill, near Washington, D. C. 



The above article by Mr. Peirce otfers some valuable 

 hints to lovers of flowers, as well as to proprietors of land 

 and cultivators generally. The beauty of the Prairie rose 

 is now so well known and appreciated, from the splendid 

 varieties raised and distributed by Mr. Feast of Baltimore, 

 that only the hint of our correspondent is needed, to induce 

 them to make new attempts at the production of improved 

 and superior seedlings. The production of seedling roses 

 has, as yet, received but little attention at the hands of our 

 amateur cultivators ; yet with no class of plants could their 

 time and attention be so well spent, or the results more im- 

 portant in an ornamental view. The Prairie rose is des- 

 tined to open new treasures to the ambitious florist. Al- 

 ready the hybrid Chinas — hybrid Provence, — hybrid per- 

 petual and other roses, are eagerly sought after, but neither 

 of these classes possess the intrinsic value of the Queen of 

 the Prairies. The Tennessee rose has the rare merit of be- 

 ing a native species — standing the cold of our severest 



