November 14, 1888.] 



Garden and Forest. 



449 



want to know is the process by which Americans 

 found out that the Baldwin, the Newtown Pippin and 

 other standard American Apples were the best for the mar- 

 ket, and then see if we cannot find a selection to equal 

 yours. I frequently have to make selections of fruits for 

 new gardens, and I have sometimes been asked to plant 

 nothing but American sorts of Apples, for "You know," 

 say my clients, "there is no English Apple to come up to 

 a Newt.)wn Pippin or Baldwin," and it is hard to tell them 

 that Apples cannot be grown in this country in such per- 

 fection as they can in the United States. 



The papers read at the Chiswick Conference took a 



New or Little Known Plants. 

 Rosa Nutkana.'^' 



THE most showy of our western Roses, as well as the 

 most clearly defined, with the e.xception of the deli- 

 cate Rosa gyninocarpa, is the Nutka Rose. It has the 

 largest flowers and the largest fruit of any of our species, 

 and its armature is liable to become on occasion the most 

 formidable. 



It is frequent along the Pacific coast from the Alaskan 

 peninsula to the Columbia River, where it was first col- 

 lected by Menzies upon Vancouver's visit to that region, 



Fig. 70. — Rosa Nutkana. 



more practical turn than the exhibition, and some sound 

 information was conveyed in them, as also in the discus- 

 sions that followed the reading of each. All these papers 

 will be collated in book-form and published by the Society, 

 and which reminds me of the thorough way in which 

 the reports of your leading horticultural societies are car- 

 ried out. Let us hope that this present effort to establish 

 fruit-farming in these islands will take root, and tend to 

 make us more of a fruit-eating nation than we are at pres- 

 ent. I was told the other day, by an American who has 

 resided in England, that an American eats ten times as 

 much fruit as an Englishman. W. Goldn'ng. 



London, Oclober 20th, 1SS8. 



and somewhat later by Haenke at Nutka Sound. It ranges 

 eastward from the coast through the mountains near the 

 boundary to north-western Montana, and thence southward 

 into Utah. It is rather stout in its habit, and with rather 

 broad foliage, very rarely nearly spineless, usually armed 

 with broad, flat spines at the base of the leaves, ami occasion- 

 ally, especially the young shoots, with scattered prickles. 

 The spines are either straight or recurved, and sometimes 

 they become larger even than they are represented in our 

 figure, and very numerous. As usual in our Roses, the 

 pubescence is very variable, the leaves being cither pcr- 



*RoSA NUTKANA, Picsl., Epinicl. Bol., :oj ; Watson, rn..-. Aim. AcmI., \k. j-h. 



