THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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NEW ROSES. 



BT FREDERICK MITCHRLL, INNERKIP, OST. 



As YOU invited me to give my 

 opinions on the latest novelties in roses 

 before the meeting of the Fruit Grow- 

 ers, held in Fe"' ruary last in Chatham ; 

 and as I failed to attend that meeting, 

 ])erhaps a few notes i n the subject 

 would not be out of place in the 

 columns of our magazine. 



This season has not been as prolific 

 as usual ia the production of much- 

 lauded varieties. The rose that has 

 created the gieAtest /uro7-e in the rose 

 world, is a Tea, and is called 



" THE BRIDE." 



Mine has not yet bloomed, but I have 

 seen it in bloom elsewhere. I do not 

 like to say very much in favor of a 

 rose of which I have had so short an 

 acquaintance, but I certainly think that 

 this rose has come to stay. It is white, 

 and in the style of Catharine Mermet. 

 I do not consider the buds or blooms 

 to be quite rqual in value to that fine 

 old white Tea rose Niphetos, but is 

 apjjai'ently far ahead of it in growth 

 and vigour of jilant. I will write 

 again of this rose as soon as I have had 

 more acquaintance with it, but from 

 what I have already seen of it T have 

 the best of hopes for its future. 



SOUVENIR DE VICTOR HUGO 



is another new Tea that some of nur- 

 serymen are trying to boom this spring. 

 I have it in bloom at the present time. 

 I have not yet seen anything about it 

 to specially commend it. In colour it 

 is a blending of cream and pink, nearly 

 of the same shade as that best of all 

 roses for the amateur, Marie Yan 

 Houtte. Although it may turn out to 

 be a good rose, I do not see anything 

 sutficiently marked about it to make it 

 an acquisition, or even to save it from 

 the genei'al oblivion into which so 

 many new roses sink after the first 

 year or two of their existence. 



PERLE D OR 



is a new Polyantha for which great 

 things are claimed. I have it in bloom. 

 It is not nearly such a rich unique 

 colour as it is claimed to be. It is 

 nearly of a salmon colour when first 

 opening, but fades very quickly to a 

 shabby-looking dead white. It is much 

 too large for a Polyantha, and has none 

 of the beautiful irregularity in shape 

 found in Paguerette and others of this 

 class. The best thing about it is its 

 rich Tea j^erfume. 



Since I wrote in the September num- 

 ber of The Horticulturist there has 

 been but little opportunity to study 

 the merits of out-door roses. As to 

 the Hybrid Tea, 



WILLIAM FRANCIS BENNETT, 



of which I wrote somewhat disparg- 

 ingly, I have nothing to take back, buc 

 still hold that for the amateur at least 

 it is not even a third-rate ix)se. I 

 notice that some of the leading Ameri- 

 can nurserymen who last year boomed 

 it as perhaps rose was never boomed 

 before, have this year dropped it from 

 their catalogue altogether. I have 

 nothing to add to my remarks on other 

 new roses mentioned in the article re- 

 ferred to, but will take them up again 

 as soon as they again commence to 

 bloom. 



WATER AND BOG PLANTS. 



Mr. W. a. Manda, of Cambridge 

 Botanic Gardens, is writing a series of 

 articles to the American Garden, on 

 " Our Native Plants." He gives a list 

 of bog plants which may be made very 

 useful to the cultivator for beautifying 

 streams, or unsightly marshy places, or 

 for which an artificial place might be 

 l)repared in the lowest part of the gar- 

 den. 



These plants may be propagated from 

 the seed or by root division. A good 

 \\'ay to sow the seed of 



