A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



special flowers. And who could do without that 

 fine book of Walsh's, of Woods Hole, Massachu- 

 setts, without the endless variety offered here, the 

 accuracy in description, above all that excep- 

 tionally good page of cultural instructions for 

 the growing of the rose? Totty, of Madison, 

 New Jersey, sends us a good-looking list of 

 roses, the blot upon which this year is the name 

 of a new ever-blooming polyanthus rose — Baby 

 Doll! 



While it is true that the small but very hand- 

 some list of the E. G. Hill Company, of Richmond, 

 Indiana, is mainly for florists, I have become so 

 enamoured of that glory of a red rose, Hoosier 

 Beauty, that I must mention its originator's pub- 

 lication here. Its cover is in black-and-white, a 

 picture of Hoosier Beauty. This is said to be a 

 good summer as well as greenhouse rose. I have 

 never seen Chateau de Clos Vougeot, one of the 

 parents of Hoosier Beauty, grown to perfection; 

 but Hoosier Beauty reminds me of it in color and 

 in velvetlike texture, and I cannot believe that 

 any dark rose exists more sumptuous in hue, more 

 elegant in form, than Hoosier Beauty. For the 

 sake of this rose alone the list of Hill is worth 

 while. On the other hand, here is shown a chrys- 



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