These are all late flowering, tall tulips, hardy and reliable. 
Hohhema (or La Reve) is probably the favorite late tulip; 
flesh color and buff changing to salmony-old-rose. Krug has 
it for $5.50 a 100 (wholesale) ; Scheepers lists it at $10,00 a 
100 and some of the other bulb men at $1.25 a dozen. It 
(Hobhenia) blooms between the early bedding tulips and the 
late cottage varieties, and so is best in groups in front of 
Mertensia. My favorite tulips are Moonlight, Rev. Ewhank, 
Phillipe de Commines, Apricot, Sabrina, Mrs. Cleveland and 
The Fawn. 
For those whose orders are belated or who do not care to 
order in quantity, I can thoroughly recommend Stumpp and 
Walter, 30 Barclay street. New York; Dreer Company and 
Farquhar — though the latter have shorter lists than usual this 
season. John Scheepers, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, who 
was instrumental in getting the Dutch growers to send their 
exhibition to the Bronx Gardens, has a very complete list of 
all the best varieties. His fall bulb catalogue is a neat stylish 
little pamphlet, most attractive and with good descriptions of 
bulbs of all kinds. 
By the time that this Bulletin gets to you it will be rather 
late to plant Iris if you want them to get well established 
before frost. July is the correct month, just after flowering. 
However, if you v/ant to treat yourself to some beauties, not 
the most expensive, the following have dawned upon my vision 
for the first time this May and I am now their happy owner. 
Wyo7nissing, creamy white and rose; 3Irs. Allen Gray, pale 
rosy-mauve; Lorely, light yellow and violet. To these add the 
fine Princess Victoria Louise, scoffed at by the Iris Specialists 
maybe, but I hold it is the second best Iris for the garden and 
picking, the best of course being Pallida Dalmatica. These 
five Iris will thrive on any dry bank and give you back 100% in 
satisfaction. 
Roses The rose-bugs were so terrible in this locality this season 
that I hesitate to advise the planting of anything but the late 
climbers. Lady Gay and Dorothy Perkins. But if our insect- 
visitors thrive on Melrosine and arsenate of lead, maybe there is 
a garden this side of the Mississippi that the rose-bugs have 
overlooked, and in this I say plant Evangaline. A simple pink 
climbing rose, but such a beauty it clashes with nothing, is 
healthy, quick growing and hardy. Fall is the best time to put 
in the hardy climbing roses ; and this is none too early to order 
them for October delivery. Gardenia, creamy white with yellow 
buds, can be gotten at Walsh's Nursery, AYoods Hole, Mass. It 
is very hard to get this simple but beautiful rose, like Alheric 
Barhier only much more beautiful in foliage and in bud; you 
should see the bunchy white horror that a reputable nursery 
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