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or February, and grown in boxes simi- 

 lar to other annuals, that is, pricked out 

 after being strong enough, then trans- 

 planted to open border in spring ; but 

 the plants rarely have the same sub- 

 sisting power as those have that were 

 planted in the fall. This stands to 

 reason, as the frequent transplanting 

 and the longer growth gives the plant 

 much more time to properly develop 

 itself. A point that was overlooked, 

 and which is valuable to any person 

 wishing to raise large flowers is that by 

 picking off all the flowers, tliat appear 

 in the fall and allowing the plant to 

 develop, the flowers will be very much 

 larger the following season, and this 

 larger flower will also be more lasting. 

 The Pansy is such a universal favorite 

 and oftentimes people will sow without 

 these precautions being gone into, that 

 they have found sowing pansy seed an 



unsuccessful pleasure ; but follow the 

 plan of sowing in the fall and no per- 

 son need be dissatisfied with the result. 

 Many amateurs may say we have been 

 so much disappointed by our attempts 

 at growing that we would sooner buy 

 the plants, but right here is where the 

 error lies, for with but a few cents 

 seed can be bought, so many hundred 

 plants may be raised, and so much more 

 pleasure, whei^eas in buying the plants 

 the expense is so much more, people are 

 checked in growing the quantity they 

 would desire to have. 



I trust many will take advantage of 

 the method of growing the seed in the 

 fall, when I feel contident they will be 

 as well repaid in the pleasure in having 

 a larger quantity of this really beautiful 

 flower as I have in endeavoring 

 to be as explicit in the cultural 

 directions. 



ROSE GOSSIP. 



By F. Mitchell, Innerkip, Ont. 



THE present,or lately passed season, 

 has been one of the best that 

 Canadian rose-growers have ever known. 

 The wood of even the most tender kinds 

 of out-door roses came out in the spring 

 uninjured by frost to the very tips of 

 the branches. 



The display of bloom in the latter 

 part of June was .such as could not be 

 excelled in what are considered as more 

 favorable climates. Since the first pro- 

 fuse blooming the display of bloom has 

 been very meagre. This is, 1 think, 

 chiefly owing to a disease which is new 

 to this locality, and which first made 

 its appearance about the end of June. 

 Black spots appear upon the leaves, 

 and the affected leaves quickly lose 

 their vitality and drop. At the pre- 

 sent time my bushes are denuded of 

 leaves, excepting a few at the top of 

 each branch. 



If this disease oi- blight does not 

 quickly terminate it will seriously 



affect the preparation of roses from 

 cuttings for this year. Propagation 

 with me has been almost a total failure 

 so far this summer. 



As T have before stated, I am be- 

 coming very cautious in recommending 

 or denouncing any particular variety of 

 rose. I And that almost every variety 

 succeeds better, (or worse), one season 

 than another. Last season the Baron 

 de Bonstettenwas far ahead of any other 

 very dark variety. This season Jean 

 Liabaud eclipsed every other rose of its 

 color. In rose-colored varieties Gabriel 

 Tournier (which last year did not 

 open well) has this season given a pro- 

 fusion of beautiful, perfect blooms, un- 

 equalU d perhaps by any other variety. 

 Madam Noman among whites has this 

 year not been up to its usual high stan- 

 dard. I will digress here and mention 

 that this variety, (as the Hon. Mrs. 

 Lambert remarks in her very excellent 

 paper in the May number of The Hor- 



