PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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SELECTED NOTES AND EXTRACTS. 
Clothilde Soopert Rose. 
The following interesting communication 
relating to the Clothilde Soupert rose, 
recently referred to in our “Seasonable 
Suggestions,” will be read with great 
interest. The lady w’ho sends them is a 
well-known enthusiastic horticulturist. 
Commendation of her treatment of the 
rose bed is unnecessary'. Her success 
proves it to be just what this grand rose 
requires: 
CrownpoinT, Ixd., July 1st, 1900. 
Mr. Meehan, 
Dear Sir; — Have just been reading 
your “Seasonable Suggestions” in Park 
AND Cemetery for June, where you 
speak of the Clothilde Soupert rose for 
cemetery' planting and describe it as 
“hardy from New York southw'ard,” — so 
I want to report to y'ou that we have a 
small 1 ed of Clothilde Soupert roses in 
our cemetery lot here, which has been a 
great success for the past five years. The 
bed is, perhaps, 4x5 feet and contains 18 
plants and is placed east of the family 
monument, which gives a little protec- 
tion from the drying west winds. We 
observe the fine t roses to be nearest the 
stone and from the first of June until 
November it is a sheet of bloom. The 
care given it is to cut the plants down in 
fall and cover with eight inches of ma- 
nure. The finest of the manure is left for 
a mulch in summer and the bed kept 
weeded and watered and two or three 
plants replaced in spring — the corner 
ones are apt to winter kill. If the winter 
proves unusually severe some tar paper is 
added. The cemetery is some feet higher 
than the town and so windsw'ep': that it 
is difficult to keep even geraniums there 
growing thriftily. It is also the custom 
to raise the lots 6 or 8 inches. Perhaps 
because of the naturally heavy clay soil, 
and I ascribe the success of this rose bed 
to the added good black soil and the 
drainage given by' the raised lot, and, I 
may justly say, that ii* spite of these 
inartistic raised lots our cemetery is the 
best kept small one that I have ever seen. 
Northern Indiana is not by any means a 
paradi e for rose lovers and growers and 
we ^nd this Clothilde Soupert rose the 
best one rose to grow, the hardiest and 
freest ever blooming rose. 
Yours truly, B. 
Fertilizers. 
An interesting note on the relative 
money value of chemicals and horse 
manure is the following from The Flor- 
ists' Exchange-. In reply to your en- 
quiry of a few days since, which reads as 
follows: “Can there be furnished in 100 
pounds of chemicals, at a cost not exceed- 
ing $3, as much nitrogen, phosphoric 
acid and potash as is contained in one 
ton of horse manure? Signed, Market 
Gardener,” we would say that a ton of 
good horse manure contains about 12 
pounds of nitrogen, 6 pounds of phos- 
phoric acid and 12 pounds of potash. At 
present market prices of chemicals, these 
amounts of plant food are worth about 
$2.50, provided we do not take into con- 
sideration the questi n of avail ibility'. 
For $3 we could purchase the follow'ing 
amount of plant food: 15 pounds of 
nitrogen in the form of nitrate of soda, 8 
pounds of available phosphoric acid in 
the form of acid phosphate and 16 pounds 
of actual potash in the form of muriate 
of potash. — L. L. YanSlyke, Chemist, 
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion. 
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Hardy Evergreens. 
When in search of evergreens particu- 
larly hardy and yet very choice, do not 
overlook the Colorado Blue Spruce. 
This native inhabitant of the Rocky 
Mountains endures the v'ery coldest tem- 
peratures, and w'hen well established will 
make one of the prettiest decorative 
evergreens, in color and form, that can 
be desired. It grows just rapidly enough 
to avoid an unnatural compactness, yet 
always maintains a regular, symmetrical 
growth that makes it prominent among 
other evergreens. Seedlings yield a 
great variation in color, from a light 
green to a bright steel-blue. Grafted 
specimens, secured from trees of the best 
color, are the best to obtain. The arbor 
vitae is a commoner tree, though the 
many varieties offer ample room for 
choice of pretty and desirable kinds. 
But it is perfectly hardy and thrives 
almost anywhere except in shade. — Mee- 
han's Monthly Jor A7/£^j/st, 
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Flowers as Mental Healers. 
The statement, credited to the head of 
the House of Correction in Chicago, that 
he is convinced that women inisdemean- 
anls may be reformed by being taught to 
cultivate roses, is based upon sound 
p.sy'chological principles, and is likely to 
lead to something practical and valuable. 
One who has observed the effect on his 
own mind of the cultivation of plants and 
flowers cannot have failed to perceive its 
quieting, healing, restorative nature. 
Excitement, agitation, anxiety diminish 
w'hrn attention is drawn away from one’s 
self to any beautiful object, especially if 
it be a living, growing beauty. Count 
de Charney’s plant, “Picciola,’’ in Sain- 
tine’s beautiful tale, growing up between 
the stones of the prison yard, kept from 
insanity and despair a mind that would 
otherwise have been w'recked and lost. 
The stor}' is not w'ithout its suggestion of 
what clo'e contact with life in its lower 
and simpler forms may do for a soul that 
is shattered and unstrung through con- 
tact with the rough world of sin and care 
and sorrow. Yes; set the misdemean- 
ants cultivating roses; give the insane a 
taste of the joy and sanit}' of contact 
with Nature; put a plant in the window 
of the sick-room; let all who are broken 
down in body, mind or soul feel the 
touch of the healing, restorative forces 
that clothe the world with health and 
beauty. — Frof/z Yiek's Ma-’azine. 
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One is apt to neglect the permanent 
plants and trees about the place, and 
their special requirements are more 
easily ascertained now' than at any other 
time. A shrub that has recently flowered 
show's the older twigs inclined to be 
sluggish, while there are young sprouts 
trying to make their way to light and 
form blooming branches for next season. 
Take a .sharp knife and cut the old 
branches completely out. As a rule well 
grown branches will bloom for three 
years and the four years’ wood should be 
cut out each July. Careful observation 
will, however, induce )'ou to make ex- 
ceptions to any rule. — C. B. IV. in The 
Aznericazi Florist. 
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Deutzia Crenata Flore Pleno. 
This double-flowered form of the large 
growing Japanese Deutzia crenata is 
a delightful shrub, and well worthy of 
associating with its near relatives, the 
Philadelphuses, flowering as it does at 
much the sane time as some of them. 
When growing freely and in the shape of 
large bush some six feet or so in height, 
few' shrubs are more attractive than this. 
There are two double-flowered forms of 
this Deutzia — one in which the blossoms 
are wholly w’hite, which is sometimes 
known as candidissima, and also as Pride 
of Rochester; and the second, w'hose 
blooms are tinged on the exterior w'ith 
purple, which feature is decidedly pro- 
nounced in the bud state, almost disap- 
pearing when fully expanded. This, 
which is generally known as extus pur- 
purea, is a decided break from the pure 
white flowers of most of its immediate 
allies. Beside these forms, distinguished 
b}' their floral differences, there is a dis- 
tinct variegated leaved variety, grow'n 
under the names of variegata and punc- 
tata. In this the leaves are peculiar 
with white and gteen in about equal 
proportions .^ — The Garden, London. 
