Ootober 14, 1886. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDERER 
843 
one of the largest and most enterprising of the American market growers. 
It was a sport from Catherine Mermet, and has been exhibited by us 
several times this season, and always attracted attention, receiving 
the commendations of many of our best judges of Roses. It has 
bloomed abundantly here from June onwards, and is wonderfully 
free both in growth and flowering. The habit is good, the flowers holding 
AMERICAN BLACKBERRIES. 
I wrote you in the spring about the Wilson Junior variety, and now 
that the fruit is ripening I report further. I may repeat that the plants, 
twelve in number, were obtained in April or thereabouts of last year, and 
consisted each of one shoot, except one, which had two of about 15 inches 
in length and of the thickness of a quill [ en. Of the six plants retained 
for myself two died and one does not appear to be the true variety. The 
Fig. 52.—Rose The Bride. 
themselves upright on stiff fljwer stalks. The introducer of it (Mr. 
May) describes it as a white Catherine Mermet, and it seems to bear out 
this description. I believe it wi 1 prove a grand white Rose, especially 
valuable for forcing for cut blooms.” 
other three at the time I wrote you were of the size of small Gooseberry 
bushes. The tallest is new more than 6 feet high, the stem is over 
2 inches in circumference at the base, and there are several branches, one 
between 5 and 6 feet in length. The second tree was the height of this 
two months ago, but the top was broken off in a gale of wind. The stem 
