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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 183. 



Short Hills, New Jersey. Mr. E. V. Hallock, of Queens, Long 

 Island, wrote of Bulbous Plants ; Messrs. E. G. Hill and A. P. 

 Simmons wrote of Fuchsias and Geraniums and so on. The 

 plants named were not all new, but many of them are little 

 known, and the catalogue, with descriptive notes on each 

 plant, is a valuable one. The lists of some of the more im- 

 portant plants are given below. 



New French Roses. — Most of these Roses tried last win- 

 ter proved worthless for growing under glass. Out of 

 nine varieties of Tea Roses I found only one which I con- 

 sidered worth another year's trial. Here are the names of the 

 ones I found of no value : Souvenir de Clairvaux, Comtesse de 

 Witzthum, Comtesse Eva de Starenburg, Jaune Nabonnaud, 

 Maurice Bauvier, Princesse de Sarsina, Souvenir de Lady Ash- 

 burton and Souvenir de Madame Sableyrolles. Elisa Fugier, 

 with a white flower somewhat resembling Niphetos, but 

 stiffer-stemed, is the only one I shall try again. Among 

 the hybrid Teas I imported four kinds and shall try three of 

 them for another year. These are Madame Caroline Testout, 

 a large pink Rose of good, firm petals and stiff stem, but not 

 sufficiently double ; Triomphe de Pernet P6re, a sweet red 

 Rose, but with too much purple in it for a goodcut flower, with 

 the form of General Jacqueminot, and a bettercolor would have 

 made it a good rose ; Marquise de Salisbury, which only lacks 

 size, and is otherwise an elegant rose ; it is a free bloomer, 

 and its flowers are a brilliant velvety red, but entirely too 

 small. — Ernest Asmus, Hoboken, N. J. 



Bedding Roses. — Etoile de Lyon is showing up well in the 

 open ground. This beautiful Tea succeeds better outside 

 than under glass, and is one of the hardiest of the Tea class. 

 Madame Agatha Nabonnaud is one of the finest bedding 

 Roses and a good grower; color, flesh-tinted rose ; buds large 

 and fine. Duchesse Marie Salviate is a beautiful new Tea Rose, 

 and a free grower and bloomer ; color, orange yellow, show- 

 in" - red. Madame Pierre Guillot is probably the finest of the 

 new Teas, and is now blooming well in the open ground. 

 The color of its flowers is richer than that of Madame 

 Watteville. Snowflake and Lady Lambert seem to be identi- 

 cal, and so do Dinsmore and Madame Charles Wood. Mrs. 

 Degraw and Henri Plantier are the same. — Dingee &* Conard 

 Company. 



[Note. — As regards Mrs. Degraw : Mr. William Burgess, 

 formerly of Glen Cove, Long Island, and now of Brooklyn, 

 and well known as of Marechal Neil fame, told me that he 

 raised this Rose from seed, perhaps thirty years ago, and 

 named it in compliment to an ex-president of the New York 

 Horticultural Society. Anyway, this Rose has been grown in 

 quantity about Glen Cove for twenty years or more and gen- 

 erally known as Mrs. Degraw or the Burgess Rose, and as such 

 Mr. Burgess exhibited it, year after year, for many years at 

 the Oueen's County, New York, agricultural fairs at Mineola. 

 And~many rosarians, John N. May among them, who have 

 seen the Rose here,- and to whom I sent plants of it, assured 

 me that it was quite distinct from any other Rose. Notwith- 

 standing all this, however, I claim nothing regarding its dis- 

 tinctness. — Wm. Falconer, .] 



New Roses. — Augustine Guinoisseau, a hybrid Tea, is a 

 sport from La France, and similar to it except in color, which 

 is white, faintly flushed with pale pink. In masses or bunches 

 the flowers are admired by every one. Kaiser Frederick is a 

 Tea Rose of the Gloire de Dijon type, producing freely large, 

 very double flowers, with the same coloring as those of Mal- 

 maison. I consider this a decided break in climbing Teas, the 

 yellowish salmon tinge common to this class being entirely 

 eliminated. Climbing Perle and Climbing Niphetos, both gen- 

 uine climbers, throw up strong, vigorous shoots eight to ten 

 feet in length. The Gulf and Pacific states will find these roses 

 great acquisitions. 



Madelaine d'Aoust, Tea ; color, coppery yellow ; petals, 

 heavily edged with white ; buds, medium size ; growth, mod- 

 erate ; an excellent and distinct bedding Rose. Madame 

 Pierre Guillot, Tea ; color, creamy white ; petals, edged with 

 rose ; buds, large and of beautiful form. Compared with 

 Madame de Watteville, the color is similar ; buds larger, more 

 double. Every shoot bears a bud, and has not the Watteville 

 habit of throwing blind wood. Clotilde Soupert, Polyantha 

 Tea : one of the most valuable Roses of recent introduction ; 

 it has endured ten degrees below zero planted in the open 

 ground. Waban, a sport from Catharine Mermet ; flowers, a 

 very deep shade of rose, with a decided tinge of red on the 

 outer petals ; in an even temperature of fifty-five to fifty-eight 

 degrees it produces fine buds ; young growths and foliage 

 darker than in the parent, but otherwise it is exactly similar. 



Our experience with it is limited to the growth and behavior 

 of ten four-inch pot-plants, bedded out in January last. 



In the latest European sorts our experience is limited to a 

 few months' growth under glass. Madame Elis Lambert may 

 be described as a medium-sized Marie Guillot, pure white, 

 with an edge of rose on the inner petals, very double, free- 

 blooming, distinct, and a good grower. Elisa Fugier ; in form 

 and color of bud very similar to Niphetos ; every shoot pro- 

 duces a bud ; growth, very vigorous, much more so than in 

 Niphetos ; promises well for forcing. Henri Brichard, hybrid 

 Tea ; produces very large, globular buds, in color similar to 

 those of Captain Christy, with perhaps a deeper centre ; thor- 

 oughly distinct, quite different from any in this section, good 

 grower and free bloomer. Triomphe de Pernet Pere, hybrid 

 Tea, said to be a cross between General Jacqueminot and the 

 Tea-rose Desir ; buds, of fair size, and in style like those of 

 Jacqueminot ; fragrant ; cherry red ; constant bloomer and 

 vigorous grower. — J. C. Vaughan, Chicago. 



Rose Novelties. — Madame Pierre Guillot, Tea, a magnifi- 

 cent and distinct new Rose, equally good for forcing or for 

 open-ground bedding. This Rose will rank with the finest of 

 the Teas. J. B. Varrone, Tea, is a variety which may be classed 

 as intermediate between Comtesse La Barthe and Luciole. It 

 combines the free-flowering qualities of the former with the 

 rich coloring of the latter. A most distinct and valuable new 

 Rose. Miss Marston, Tea, a large open-shaped flower when 

 fully developed, of the general make and style of Catherine 

 Mermet; a promising new Rose, which will probably force well. 

 Madame Marthe de Bourg, Tea, a distinct-shaped bud of con- 

 siderable length, somewhat after the form of Niphetos, but 

 differing in color and texture. This Rose blooms well, forces 

 readily, and is of good, sturdy habit. 



Other new varieties of the Tea section may be mentioned 

 briefly : Souvenir de Dr. Passot, of very brilliant color, but too 

 thin and scanty in petals, and not large enough ; Souvenir de 

 F. Gaulain, a fine, strong, free-flowering Rose, quite double 

 and of good form, but with a decided purplish cast ; Jeanne 

 Guillaumez has flowers of beautiful apricot color, but scarcely 

 large enough in bud, very showy when full blown, and quite 

 free ; Gustave Nadaud has a bud of bright carmine color, 

 shaded with yellow, long-pointed, lacking in substance, how- 

 ever, and also in distinctness from other varieties ; May Rivers 

 and Madame Olga are both very similar to the old variety 

 Ophelia, and not distinct enough from Cornelia Cook. 



Georges Farber, Mademoiselle G. Goddard, Madame A. 

 Tarle, Mademoiselle M. Fabisch, Mademoiselle M. Thezillat 

 and Marquis de Foretan are novelties that should not have 

 been put on the market, as they are of no value to any one. 



Augustine Guinoisseau, the so-called White La France, is 

 a hybrid Tea. It is admired by many and condemned by not 

 a few as lacking in distinctness of color ; it is not white, but it 

 is quite distinct from both the Duchess of Albany and La 

 France. In every respect but color it is a veritable La France, 

 and worthy of culture. Bona Weillshott, another hybrid Tea, 

 is a plant of good growth and great freedom of bloom, but the 

 flower is lacking both in color and form ; occasionally it is 

 quite fine, but so few good blooms are produced that it cannot 

 be recommended. La France of '89 is a most distinct and 

 fine Rose. It, however, is not "perpetual" in its bloom, like 

 the hybrid Teas generally. It is semi-climbing in habit and of 

 vigorous constitution, and promises well in form, size and 

 rich coloring. Madame Hortense Montefiore, hybrid Tea, is 

 weak in growth, and the flower lacks size ; undesirable. 

 Madame Zea Collogne, of La France type, has a more dis- 

 tinct combination of colors than most others of this type. 



Hybrid Perpetuals. — Gustave Piganeau is most distinct 

 and valuable on account of its fine form, large size and good 

 color. These points, together with its great freedom of bloom, 

 place it among the finest of its class. Gloire de l'Exposition de 

 Bruxelles — a very dark crimson-maroon colored Rose, with 

 scarlet shadings. Very full and double and free and fine in 

 habit. Oscar II. Roi de Suede is a very pronounced and dis- 

 tinct Rose ; color, cinnabar-crimson, with maroon shadings ; 

 of strong growth, and bearing large, handsome flowers. Lady 

 Arthur Hill, James Brownlow, Martin Cahuzac and Maurice 

 de Vilmorin are Roses of promise in this section, and can be 

 commended for trial. 



The above hybrids are the most noted ones of the many 

 sent out last year, but the judging has all been done from 

 blooms produced under glass. 



Pink Rover. — A Bourbon of the general type and color of 

 Malmaison, but somewhat darker in its shadings; will 

 doubtless prove a useful variety. — E. G. Hill, Richmond, 

 Indiana. 



