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yielded an enormous crop. It certainly is worth a trial once 

 more alongside of the newer varieties. 



The Strawberry season was about ten days late in its arrival 

 and departure. Chestnut trees are usually in full bloom July 

 4th, but this year did not reacli that condition till the i6th, and 

 yet the handsome and ever welcome little Doyenne d'Ete Pear 

 was on time, giving lis the first ripe specuiiens on the 20th of 

 July as usual. How shall we account for such differences ? 



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Madame Ferdinand Jamain, but whether an old or a new 

 variety, it has become ilecidedly p(.)pular, and apparently has 

 come to stay. 



An addition to this sliort list of summer Roses may possi- 

 bly be made in the future by including the new Tea Rose Me- 

 teor. This brilliant colored variety, with its fair-sized flowers of 

 bright crimson, has not proved a complete success for winter 

 forcing, being apparently a shy bloomer at that season, but it 

 appears to be of good constitution, and will most likely prove 



Fit^. 46. — Rhododendron 1 



A Few Summer Roses. 



TX/TARIE Guillot is prol.)al)Iy the most satisfactory white 

 -'■'-^ Rose for summer use — its large, finely formed flowers, 

 of good substance, keeping their character even in very wamr 

 weather. But though superior in hot weather, it is not equal 

 to The Bride or Niphetos during the winter season. And the 

 old favorite, Perle des Jardins, is decidedly the best of its 

 color as a generally useful variety, though it has received 

 some hard criticism during the pa.st two or three seasons on 

 account of its partial failure. But its bad behavior in many 

 cases is probably due to the treatment it has received in 

 former years, and there is httle doubt but that it has lost 

 some of its original vigor from hard forcing for several suc- 

 cessive seasons. When young plants are propagated from 

 this more or less exhausted growth, it is reasonable to sup- 

 pose that they will lose a porfion of their vitality. However, 

 we have not yet found a variety capable of entirely supersed- 

 ing it (the Perle), and therefore it still remains a standard sort 

 among the vast array of good Roses. 



As a red variety, American Beauty, or as our European 

 cousins persist in calling it, Madame Ferdinand Jamain, is one 

 of the best, its fine, fidl flowers being alike useful to the ama- 

 teur and to the trade-grower. As to the name of this variety, 

 we have no special opinion to offer, though several clever 

 rosarians have agreed that it is the Rose originally sent out as 



valuable as a summer variety. An opinion has been ex- 

 pressed by an experienced cultivator that this rose should 

 more properly be classed as a Hybrid Tea, and from its habit 

 and appearance there seems to be good foundation for this 

 opinion, but since it was introduced here as a pure Tea Rose, 

 it has been so termed by the writer. 



A few general remarks in regard to treatment may not l>c 

 inappropriate. 



In the first place free ventilation is essential, luit when 

 the nights are chilly, as frequently happens in the latter part 

 of the summer, a corresponding reduction should be made in 

 the ventilation, and in bright and dry weather frequent and 

 thorough svringings should be given — twice a day is not too 

 C)ftcn. 



A watering with liquid manure about once in two weeks 

 will also be found fienelicial, and in very hot weather a slight 

 shading with very thin whitewash, or some similar prepara- 

 tion, will improve the quality of the flowers. 



Of course a prompt application of sulphur will be made 

 when mildew appe;u'S. " /K" 



Christmas Roses at Christmas are yet a novelty in .America. 

 The problem of raising them here in sufficient ipiantity and 

 cheaply enough for forcing has not yet been solved. Perhaps 

 this can never be done in the open air in the Northern States 

 For trade purposes, it is necessary to import from Holland 



