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distinct Rose, and so robust is it in strong Rose soil that, being also very 

 thorny, it may even be planted as hedges for protection. On the Continent, 

 especially in Germany, where most winters are so severe that Roses 

 are killed to the root unless they Eire laid in the ground and then 

 covered with straw, this Rose has stood without protection ; nor is it 

 subject to diseases like other Roses. It keeps continually growing and 

 flowering from May till November. — G. B. 



Rose * Crimson Rambler,' Successive Flowering of. By M. Yver 

 (Bev. Hort. Jan. 16, 1903 ; p. 26). — Note on a grafted specimen at 

 Dijon, which flowered normally third week in July, and equally strongly 

 again in October, lasting through a frost until end November. Remarks 

 reoccurrence of pink and pure white flowers in this Rose in small groups, 

 sd far not fixable. — C. T. D. 



Rose, The Perfume Of the (Chambers's Journal, May 1903). — 

 " It is stated to be perfectly certain that under no conditions is the odour 

 of the Rose fully developed except in very hot climates ; yet such is not 

 the climatic condition of the great seats of Rose-farming in Europe. 

 Turkish attar of Roses, for instance, is mainly produced in Bulgaria, 

 and is carried on in the fertile valleys on the southern slope of the 

 Balkans. In this region, where wheat and the ordinary cereals are 

 produced, there is cold and snow in winter, abundance of moisture in the 

 spring and autumn, and drought in summer. 



" The Roses employed for attar-making in Europe are.: in Bulgaria, the 

 Red-damask Rose, and in the South of France the Provence Rose, a hybrid 

 or variety of the Hundred-leaved Rose (Bosa centifolia), to which also 

 belongs the well-known Cabbage Rose. These Roses are both spring- 

 bloomers, though the Damask Rose has a short autumn season as well, and 

 their bloom lasts for only about a month." 



The writer adds that what is wanting to make Rose-farming popular 

 is a perpetual bloomer, which will have the requisite quantity and quality 

 of oil, and will give work for five or six months on a plantation. Such 

 a Rose would be as popular among horticulturists for general garden 

 decoration as for the production of oil for the manufacture of scent. 



B. D. 



San Jose Scale : Natural Enemies in Connecticut. By W. E. 



Britton (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Conn., Bep of Entomologist, part ii. 1902 ; 2 

 figi.). — The twice-stabbed lady-bird (Chilicorus bivulnerus, Muls.), a black 

 lady-bird (Pcntilia misella, Leb.), and a fungus probably a species of 

 Capnodium are reported as causing reduction in the number of scales on 

 infested trees. — E. J. C. 



San Jose Scale Investigations. By V. H. Lowe and P. J. Parrott 

 (U.S.A. Exp. Stn. Neio York, Bull. 228, 12/1902; 7 plates).— Experi- 

 ments were made with various washes, including resin washes, lime-water 

 and kerosene wash, lime-sulphur-salt wash and casein, and potash- 

 sulphur wash, but none gave better results than the lime-sulphur-salt 

 wash (recipe in Journ. B.H.S. xxvii. 1190). This spray was uniformly 

 successful in all the localities where it was tried in New York State. 



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