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Annals of Horticulture. 



Vioiacea suferba (Lacroix). Japanese single ; color rather lighter than 



Erect a su^erba. 



Visconti Felix (Delaux). Japanese; crimson-claret and white, striped 

 violet-rose. 



W. F. Dixon (Delaux). Japanese ; crimson-red, flamed yellow, yellow 

 tips, reverse golden.*' 



Among roses, nothing of unusual interest has occurred dur- 

 ing the year, except the introduction of the Waban. This 

 rose originated at the Waban conservatories of E. M. Wood 

 & Co., Natick, Mass., and was introduced to the trade by the 

 originators in the spring of 1891. The rose has been before 

 the public for nearly two years, however, and its merits are 

 Roses well understood.* The Waban is a sport of Catherine Mer- 

 met, and differs from it only in color, which is two shades 

 deeper, being a bright, rich pink. It has had the silver 

 medals of the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Societies. E. G. Hill, the well-known rose-grower of Rich- 

 mond, Ind., writes that the rose novelties of the year, with 

 which he is experimenting, are all comprised in the lists spread 

 in Annals for i8o,o.f These foreign roses arrived so late last 

 fall (1890), that satisfactory tests of them have not been 

 completed. 



The following English experience of some of the newer 

 roses will be valuable to American growers: J 



" One sometimes sees a good rose at an exhibition, and 

 when purchasing a plant finds it to be a very weak grower and 

 altogether an indifferent doer. This is very disappointing. 

 There are some roses of recent introduction that are worthy 

 roles, of taking rank among our best, and I propose naming a few 

 of them, and giving as fair a description of the same as I 

 can. Germaine Caillot and similar bad growers I will not 

 mention ; and readers may therefore conclude that all in this 

 list are well worth purchasing whenever they can find room 

 for a few more plants. 



" Souvenir de S. A. Prince, one of the finest white roses ever 

 introduced, very free-growing and flowering, and also one of 

 our sweetest-scented roses. This variety is synonymous with 

 The Queen, and originated in the same manner. 



"Madame Hoste is a pale yellow of really first-class quality, 



*See American Florist for January 22, 1891, for a colored portrait of the Waban. See 

 also Annals for 1890, 43. 



f Pp. 41-56. J A. P. in The Northern Gardener, 1. new series, 4 (Jan. 1, 1892). 



