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ness and even death, especially among children and those 

 of feeble- constitution. 



As man pales, sickens and dies without the blessing of 

 the sunshine, so, too, the earth deteriorates and becomes 

 unfit as a safe resting-place for man if it is deprived of 

 the requirements of nature. It frequently happens that 

 physicians are called to prescribe for ailing people who 

 seem to possess every comfort and luxury, and yet who 

 are really perishing because their houses and grounds 

 are overshaded. These people who live in such houses 

 are always cold and miserable, needing extra clothing 

 and expending great quantities of fuel in order to obtain 

 the needed warmth and to dispel the deadly chill. Ar- 

 tificial heat can never be compared reasonably with the 

 pure life-giving sunshine, and human science can never 

 discover a substitute for the divine light of health and 

 life. Where houses are overshaded the nervous system 

 also suffers, as well as the general bodily health ; mental 

 disturbance, melancholy and madness are to be appre- 

 hended from such dreary surroundings. No one will 

 pretend that the sanitary condition of the majority of 

 our summer resorts are at all equal to what they should 

 be, or to what the public has a right to demand. 



As a local board of health has a right and duty to close 



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This is the second season that the new rose, 

 Georges Biuant, has bloomed in our experiment 

 grounds. It is the first known cross between a tea 

 rose (Sombreuil) and Rosa rugosa, the first cross of 

 any kind with Rosa rugosa having been effected by 

 the Rural Neiu- }^or/eernea.r\y two years previously, 

 the hardy rose, Harrison's Yellow, having then been 

 used as the pollen plant. 



G. Bruant, in so far as the buds and flowers are 

 concerned, is a decided success. The buds are 

 pointed, as our illustration from nature shows, and 

 they unfold not unlike the teas, Niphetos for exam- 

 ple. As the bud opens more fully, one is reminded 

 of Gen. Jacqueminot, while, as may be seen, again 

 glancing at the illustration (page 417), the full- 

 blown flower is almost its counterpart, save in 

 color, which is a pure white. 



We may not speak in positive terms as yet re- 

 specting this rose's foliage, habit, blooming period 

 and hardiness. Two large pot-grown plants were 

 received last year, one from Ellwanger & Barry, the 



BRUANT ROSE. 



a house injurious or dangerous to health and life, and to 

 forbid its occupancy until reasonable sanitary require- 

 ments have been observed and causes of danger re- 

 moved, so it would almost seem to be a reasonable in- 

 ference that a national board of health should have 

 power to discipline summer resorts and other localities, 

 and prevent the seekers for health and pleasure from 

 risking their own and their children's lives in places des- 

 perately neglected, unhealthful and dangerous. 



Many such places exist, where overshading is the 

 greatest obstacle to needed sanitary reforms, and where, 

 indeed, little can be accomplished for the future sanitary 

 improvement of the place until the axe has been given 

 full sway and sunlight admitted to disinfect the foul 

 earth. 



" Oh, that one ray of Kolden light 

 Could pierce this never-ending night ! " 



cries the prisoner in his dark and dreary dungeon. Can 

 we not as physicians feel the warmest pity for those who 

 are deprived of the blessed sunlight ? Do not the stories 

 of the captives and victims of Russian cruelty appeal to 

 us more strongly when we think of their dark and sun- 

 less existence ? Light and life are the divine gifts ; death 

 and darkness the portion of those who hate the light. 



BRUANT ROSE. 



other from The Storrs & Harrison Co. Neither 

 bloomed. Both were wintered in a cold frame, and 

 though somewhat injured during the winter, both 

 are bloomng freely now. 



The habit seems a trifle leggy, the foliage scanty. 

 The leaflets — usually five — are smaller than those 

 of Rugosa and less leathery, though the closely net- 

 ted veinlets, so distinctive a feature in the beautiful 

 leaflets of Rugosa, are quite well defined. The odor 

 of the flower is rather that of Rugosa than of 

 the teas. The smaller and more closely-set thorns 

 of Rugosa are wanting, while the larger thorns are 

 more rigid and not less numerous. A third plant 

 received from Peter Henderson & Co. this spring 

 in fine condition is now badly mildewed, while the 

 others have suffered as much from insects as the 

 hybrid remontants among which they are growing. 



Given a more vigorous growth and a closer habit, 

 which it may still be found to possess under more 

 favorable conditions, Georges Bruant must be con- 

 sidered a very valuable acquisition. E. S. C. 



