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bone, while the daughter of the Rebel demolished a 
ham sandwich and a hard boiled egg, both talking 
the while, with no trace of bitterness, of the scenes 
enacted there in the sixties. 
We found several bullets near the spot, also an 
ornament from the cap of a Federal bugler. These, 
with some wild flowers, and the memory of a very 
bright, pleasant day, we carried home with us. 
Louisville, Ky. Elizabeth Fry. 
Hybrid Wichuriana Roses. 
Rosa Wichuriana promises to yield a group of 
garden hybrids of especial use in cemeteries. The 
original species introduced to this country in 1891. It 
1. Wichuriana. 2. Favorite. 
3. Manda s Triumph. 4. South Orange Perfection. 
has single white flowers in clusters and is of a very 
neat but vigorous trailing habit peculiarly well 
adapted tor covering mounds. It will be all the 
better of course for a barrowfull of good soil to 
plant in, but its long shoots may be trained over 
rocks if necessary. It is hardy as a rose can be, 
but this habit of creeping over the ground will nat- 
urally adapt it to the north-west and other sections 
of the country where the snow lies in winter, af- 
fording its full protection. Where it will live with- 
out the covering of snow, (as it does in all places 
yet heard from) the shoots grow on established plants 
8, 10, or even 15 feet in a season, and these long 
shoots may of course be trained upon railings or 
other supports if preferred. The group of four 
hybrids surrounding the photograph were raised and 
selected by Mr. W. A. Manda of South Orange, N. 
J., (formerly of Short Hills. ) They partake of the 
excellent characteristics of the parent with the added 
charm of doubleness, fragrance, and variety of color. 
No I is called the “Pink roamer” by the raiser, and 
is a very luxuriant grower. (2) is called the 
“Universal favorite,” (3) is “Manda triumph,” 
and (4) the “South Orange perfection.” These 
roses will no doubt become very useful and popular 
for memorial purposes, and are worthy of extensive 
trial. 
Another notable rose of late years is a hybrid 
R. multiflora raised by a gentleman in Lincolnshire, 
England, a county with a very New England kind 
of climate, which yielded also to this continent the 
original Mayflower Pilgrims. It was first exhibited 
in this country at the International PIxhibition of 
Chicago, under the raisers name — ‘’The Engineer.” 
It was purchased and disseminated by Chas. 
Turner’s Sons of the Royal Nurseries, Slough, near 
Windsor, and was made the object of a special 
visit by Her Majesty the Queen, Turners thought 
it expedient to rechristen it “Crimson Rambler,” 
but I am often doubtful if any money purchase 
warrants these proceedings except in the case of 
atrociously bad names. 
Still another hybrid of Rosa multiflora (syn. 
polyantha) has yellow flowers, and is of German 
origin. I suppose the original name to be “aglaia,” 
but it also has been called a rambler. It is claimed 
to have been fertilized by pollen of the buff yellow 
“Reve d' Or” of Ducher, a Noisette rose. These 
Noisette roses are themselves of American origin, 
having been raised by a French gardener whose 
name they perpetuate. I am not aware if any auth- 
oritative figure of the original is in existence, but 
the rose was sent to France in 1814. Probably the 
Kew people have 
something which 
they regard as 
the typical Noi- 
sette, and they 
quote it as a hy- 
brid between R. 
Indica, and R. 
moschata, itself 
an Indian rose, 
but widely diffu- 
sed westwards to 
the Mediteran- 
ean countries. 
There seems a 
very strong pro- 
bability however 
that No isette 
worked with the 
“Prairie rose, ”R. aglaia, (Yellow Rambler.) 
