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this year, its good qualities of a low habit of growth and well 

 shaped, closely incurved flowers, of a bright chamois yellow. 

 Ralph Brocklebank, a yellow sport of the old variety Meg Mer- 

 rilles, has the same serious defect, a dark center. 



The seedlings of the year of American production are not 

 very numerous, nor are they, as a whole, very promising. 

 They have generally been exhibited as single large flowers 

 grown to the fullest size that high cultivation can give them. 

 It is not easy, therefore, to say how valuable they will prove 

 for general cultivation. It is, unfortunately, true that many of 

 the best new seedlings have been plants of bad constitution, 

 capable of yielding, in the hands of expert gardeners, wonder- 

 ful results, but comparatively valueless for the average grower. 

 Some most remarkable flowers, exhibited at the Boston show 

 by Mr. Brydon, gardener to Mr. Simpkins, were largely of 

 this class. Better flowers were never exhibited here, and, 

 probably, better could not be seen on any exhibition table in 

 the world ; but if the ordinary grower should select these plants 

 for his own collection he would inevitably be disappointed 

 in the results of his cultivation. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, one 

 of last year's seedlings, was shown by Mr. Brydon in good 

 form and bright color, but the same flower, as exhibited by 

 other growers, was dull and unworthy of its reputation. Ada 

 Spaulding is not attractive in color, at least was not so at the 

 Boston exhibition, and is no better in size and form than many 

 more highly colored flowers already in the market. The other 

 conspicuous seedlings of 1889, so far as they have been seen, 

 must, in my opinion, await the results of another season's 

 cultivation before they can be awarded a very high place on 

 the list. 



J. J? OSes. 



SOME OF THE NEWER VARIETIES OF ROSES. BY E. G. HILL, IN 

 GARDEN AND FOREST. 



The list of new roses for 1888 and spring of 1889 was an un- 

 usually large one, about equally divided between the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals and those known as Ever-bloomers in this country, 

 including Teas, Polyanthas, Hybrid Teas, Noisettes, Bour- 

 bons and Chinas. It is impossible to determine the value or 

 quality of a Hybrid Perpetual with a single summer's trial, 



