ment, but is a considerable reconimendatioii, you will admit. 

 There is a uew golden rose that I would like to see in every gar- 

 den. It is Golden Spray, and it has been well-named, for it is in 

 truth a golden spray, with its long stems showering in loose, 

 graceful groups of slender budded sprays of clear,, pure gold. 

 Another fine golden rose is J. F- Barry, a most generous bloomer 

 and of great value as a cutting rose, and it has that rare quality 

 so few golden roses possess : it holds to its color even in intensely 

 ^\"arm weather. 



The tree rose of La Tosca fascinated me. What a wonderful 

 rose La Tosca is I How far and away superior it is to La France ! 

 Xot only is it a better pink, but it is a better and more desirable 

 rose in every way. The La Tosca trees (standards) were so laden 

 with blooms that their foliage Avas hardly visible, and they had 

 been blooming in that lavish way all Summer. This variety is 

 not a novelty by any means, but for some reason unknown to me 

 it is not grown as widely as its decided merit warrants. I will 

 make tlie.same plea for Mme. Segond Weber (also not a novelty), 

 but what a rose I A peach-pink, with just a suggestion of amber 

 in its coloring, rarely formed buds, lovely open flowers, and alto- 

 gether a gem for our rose gardens. 



Moonlight and Pillar of Gold, the latter a climbing tea-rose, 

 the former a climbing hybrid-tea, are both lovely and will bloom 

 all Summer, only do not prune them their first Summer and 

 please do not expect them to look like rambler roses and great 

 climbers tliat only bloom in early Summer. No; these climbing 

 teas and hybrid teas are very different and they are very wonder- 

 ful, and, as I have said, they bloom all Summer long, and for this 

 type of rose they grow amazingly tall, enriching us with roses to 

 cut all Summer and Autumn, which means they should be well- 

 fed every two or three weeks, '*'to keep up their strength," as a 

 certain famous rosarian said to me with gTeat seriousness — just 

 as if he were speaking of human beings. I loved him for it. A 

 little trowel (not heaped) of the rose-food worked into the soil 

 and "hosed in"' is good feeding if given every two weeks or so. 



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