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ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE. 



earth, and that it was loose and droughty; and in the rose 

 garden there was no soil which is adapted to roses. The gard- 

 eners also complain that the intense sun of the American 

 climate burns out the more delicate and better roses as soon as 

 they open. Yet, notwithstanding all this, it was generally con- 

 ceded that the rose garden was a success. A low trellis 

 bounded the garden just inside the fence, and it was covered, 

 most of its length, with a profuse bloom of Pride of Washing- 

 ton rose, furnished by Dingee & Conard Co. A short portion of 

 the trellis was planted to Baltimore Belle, but this variety 

 failed to make a satisfactory show. Each of the interior beds 

 contained but a single exhibit, although various exhibitors 

 occupied more than a single plot. Those beds or plots border- 

 ing the margin of the garden were often more or less mixed. 



The records of the rose garden were not complete, and it 

 is impossible to make an exact statement of the exhibitors and 

 varieties, although the following list of exhibitors is practically 

 complete : 



Planted in 1892. E. Asmus, West Hoboken, New Jersey, two varie- 

 ties, hybrids. 



1892. Robert Craig, Philadelphia, two varieties. (State of 

 Pennsylvania). 



1892. Alexander Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, Ireland, 20 varieties. 



1893. Alexander Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, Ireland, three 



varieties. 



1892. California exhibitors, 35 varieties, hybrids. 



1893. California exhibitors, 24 varieties, hybrids. 

 1893. California exhibitors, 67 varieties, Teas. 



(California State Exhibit, and California Nursery Co.) 

 1893. Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pennsylvania, three 

 varieties. 



1892. Boskoop Nursery Association, 144 varieties, hybrids. A few 

 of these died. 



1892. M. Jeurgisson, Boskoop, Holland, 60 varieties. 



1893. E. G.Hill & Co., Richmond, Indiana, 20 varieties, Teas and 



Polyanthas. 



1892. Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Kentucky, 15 varieties, hybrids. 



1893. Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Kentucky, 17 varieties, Teas. 

 1893. John N. May, New Jersey, four varieties, Teas. 



1892. Ohio exhibitors, 10 varieties. (Dayton Star Nurseries). 



1893. Pitcher & Manda, New Jersey, 30 varieties, hybrids. 



1893. E. Seyderhelm, Buda Pesth, Austria, about 200 varieties, 

 standards. 



1892. J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, one variety. 



1893. German exhibitors, about 500 varieties, hybrids, Teas and 



standards. 



Aside from these exhibits, there were on the island about 

 sixty varieties of standards from W. Van Kleeff & Sons, Bos- 

 koop, Holland; a large lot of standards from the German 

 Department* (included in the above estimate of 500 varieties); 

 -a lot of Marshall P. Wilder, very fine, from Ellwanger & Barry, 



* German firms and individuals represented were Lambert & Reiter, 

 Trier; O. Tiefenthal, Hamburg; Joseph Mock, Trier j Carl Goerns, 

 Potsdam. 



