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in the meantime. Every park and garden should 
have a nursery and trial ground, and of course a 
superintendent who knows how to manage it. 
I may now perhaps say a word about the ceme- 
tery. You know my sentiments about the general 
run of cemeteries. No gardener can view with com- 
placency the invasion of the marble slab. 
But I have often wondered how it happens that 
most cemeteries are of the general run. I should 
think the large cities at any rate would develop a 
sort of out-door Westminster. Why cannot 50 or 
100 wealthy men club together and buy some hill 
capable of culture? There are lots of hill farms. 
Put in $1 ,000 each say, and have the right to build 
a mausoleum on such sites as are indicated by the 
figures on the plan. They are often more than 100 
or 150 feet across, and could be arranged in any 
size. Then ground in the open spaces could be sold 
at high prices to anyone willing to erect such monu- 
ments as would pass a committee of architects. 
Such a cemetery planted as suggested would be 
worth talking about. Something like this is done 
in someof the British colonies (Trinidad for instance) 
where a portion of St. Anne’s Garden has become 
the local Westminster, and the resting place of a 
few distinguished men. The monuments might be 
combined mausoleums and plant houses containing 
the tender plants of each alliance and built in part 
of the Falconiere glass bricks which offer such 
splendid possibilities to the Horticultural Architect. 
A series of structures such as these might often be 
supplied from ornamental stand pipes on the hill- 
top with oil-fuel, water- and electricity perhaps. 
The roads are 33 feet 4 inches wide. 
Trenton, N. J. James MacPherson. 
WHITE ROSES FOR THE CEMETERY. 
The chief consideration in a flower for the ceme- 
tery is continuous blooming. Roses are as truly 
ever blooming as any class of flowers that grow, 
provided the choice is directed to the varieties so 
endowed. 
Hardy constitution is also a recommendation. 
Such roses, once established, are ornamental and 
satisfactory for a great length of years, and the lot 
in the cemetery, they adorn, will never be without 
flowers in bloom. 
White is a delicate hue, in a refined sense, but 
in no wise, indicates a delicate, or feeble constitu- 
tion in a rose. The fact is, that some of the hardi- 
est, freest and every way, the most available roses 
are pure white. The list here given may be de- 
pended upon to bloom freely in northern sections, 
bravely withstanding the rigors of winter, to the 
borders of Canada, windswept lake-shores, mount- 
ainous districts, where snows are heavy, as well as 
climates still more trying, in the alternate freezing 
and thawing that characterizes southern sections, 
seem to have no more destructive effect upon them 
than upon the Hawthorn, or Oak. Hybrid Perpet- 
ual Roses, as a class, are hardy, but some are more 
so than others. 
Among the pure white remontants, Perle des 
Blanche and Coquette des Blanche are not only 
hardy and free, but are continuous bloomers, and 
quite beautiful. Not even among Tea roses, the 
undisputed ever-bloomers, is there one that, in this 
desirable quality excels Perle des Blanche. The 
buds and blooms are borne in full clusters and are 
globular in shape. From early spring till autumn 
freezes into winter Perle des Blanche will be loaded 
with buds and blooms. Coquette des Blanche, too 
is pure white, but sometimes the outer petals will 
be tinged pink and the clusters are not as full in 
number as Perle des Blanche. 
Foveliest of all hardy white roses, perhaps, is 
Mabel Morison, the fair daughter of the peerless 
Baroness de Rothschild, which is pink. 
Mable Morison is a larger, fuller rose, than 
either of the foregoing, and quite as hardy, but 
does not propagate so freely. Perle des Blanche 
has a rich productiveness in shoots that put up 
freely from the main root. Each one may be de- 
tached, with young roots, and set in place, making 
sturdy rose bushes that will bloom freely in one year 
Rosa Rugosa or Ramosa, the Japanese rose, has 
almost evergreen foliage, and single white blooms, 
with yellow centres. The foliage is dark, shining 
green and the snow-white flowers cover the shrubs, 
in sheets. It is planted in hedges, as pruning im- 
proves its beauty; but isolated specimens are sym- 
metrical and quite comely. Few rose bushes pro- 
duce such full crops of flowers, and in the fall the 
hips or rose-apples succeed the blooms and are as 
bright as glass beads in scarlet and gold. Moss-roses 
are exquisitely beautiful wherever they bloom, but 
particularly so in the cemetery. They are crepy 
and fine in texture, heavily encrusted with green 
mossy calyx and stems, and with rich velvety leaves. 
There are two pure white moss-roses that are ever- 
bloomers, in the truest sense of the word: Blanche 
Moreau and Perpetual White, and like all roses that 
grow on rhyzoma roots, are hardy and propagate 
freely. 
No flowers are more beautifully appropriate for 
this sacred purpose than white roses, and among 
them all, none are more desirable than the varieties 
here named. 
New Orleans, Fa. G. T. Drennan. 
Investments in park property give large returns 
to the community. 
