NO. 1993 
NEW YORK, APKIL 7, 1888. 
Entered, according to Act of Congress. ,n the year. 1888. by the Rural Nkw-Yohkeh, ,n the office of the librarian of Congress. 
PRICE FIVE CENTS. 
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VOL. XLVII. 
ROSE 
SPECIAL 
COMMERCIAL ROSE NOTES. 
EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
Utility roses ; American Beauty leads amonq 
large roses ; Bon Silene the most useful 
among the pink Teas: don't condemn anew 
rose from one season's trial; The Puritan; 
The Bride; Wm. Francis Bennett; it’s 
lemon-verbena odor; Comtesse de Frigneuse 
needs a back bone; Papa Gontier like Bon 
Silene but more so; Mine. Gabriel Luizet , 
the suicidal rose; Mine, de Watteville; 
Gabmelle Drevet, Mme. Cusin, Princess 
Beatrice, Mrs. JolmLaing; Meteor,the Tea 
Jacqueminot; Sunset is rising; La France 
the sweetest and loveliest', importing soil' 
average price of roses: Baroness Roths¬ 
child; Merveille de Lyon; Luciole, Her Ma¬ 
jesty; chemical fertilizers. 
A GENERAL utility rose for commercial pur¬ 
poses is as rare and desirable as a good family 
REMONTANT. 
SCOTCH. 
Stan well. 
lioise. It must not only beattractive in form 
and color, robust and vigorous, but it must be 
ready to bloom whenever the grower wishes 
it, and herein so many otherwise good sorts 
fail. Public taste is capricious, too, and its 
frequent variations cause much uncertainty 
to the grower. 
What is the leading trade rose? Well, 
really, no one sort leads; they are all de¬ 
manded in turn, though American Beauty 
maybe considered the first favorite among 
large roses. Good Beauties always sell, but it 
is a rose which varies greatly in quality and 
consequently in price. This winter they have 
been quoted in four separate grades, and the 
prices have’varied all the 
way from'two cents each 
to $1.50. At times the 
Beauty is rather coarse, 
but its delicious fragrance 
will always make it a fa¬ 
vorite. The color is not 
nearly so fine as that of 
Magna Charta or Paul 
Neyron, but it can be 
forced earlier than any 
other Hybrid Remontant. 
It will sell when other Hy¬ 
brids are neglected, and it 
is a favorite with the pub¬ 
lic as well as the trade. 
Bon Silene is an old 
rose now; but it is doubt¬ 
less the most useful of the 
pink teas, and in spite of 
the many new varieties 
now attracting notice, it 
holds high ground among 
them. It is essentially a 
florists’ flower; clean, ro¬ 
bust of constitution, deli¬ 
ciously fragrant, and as 
nearly perpetual-flowering 
as a rose can be. No grow¬ 
er can afford to do with¬ 
out it. 
The list of roses cultivat¬ 
ed for cut flowers grows 
larger every year. Some 
sorts never go out of date; 
others only last a few sea¬ 
sons. We can’t afford to 
condemn a new rose on the 
strength of one season’s 
failure. Neither can a man 
who grows roses for his 
bread and butter afford to 
give a lot of space to ex¬ 
periments. For this rea¬ 
son, roses which fail one 
year are likely to be grown 
but little the next, unless 
they manage to redeem 
their character. 
The Puritan, which is 
shown at Fig. 85 from na¬ 
ture, is one of the much- 
heralded uncertainties. 
The first flowers were 
shown in New York by 
Mr. Evans, who purchased 
it from Mr. Bennett, of 
Sheppertou, England,with 
whom it originated. (Then 
it was sold to B. A. Elliot, 
we believe, for $7,000.— 
Eds.) It was noticeable 
for the heavy, creamy 
texture of the petals, 
which gave it the look of 
a camellia. The foliage 
is firm and glossy, and the 
flowers possess an agree¬ 
able fragrance. If the 
flowers always came at 
their best they would sell; 
THE BEST HARDY ROSES FOR A 
COUNTRY GARDEN. 
S. B. PARSONS. 
Abel Grand. 
American Beauty. 
Alfred Colomb. 
Anna de Diesbach. 
Annie Wood. 
Antoine Mouton. 
Auguste Mie. 
Baron de Bonstettin. 
Baroness Rothschild. 
Baronne Prevost. 
Beauty of Waltham. 
Boieldieu. 
Boule de Neige. 
Captain Christy. 
Caroline de Sansal. 
Charles Lefebvre. 
Countess de Serenye. 
Coquette des Alpes. 
Elise Boelle. 
Eugene Verdier. 
E. Y. Teas. 
Fisher Holmes. 
Francois Michelon. 
General Jacqueminot. 
General Washington. 
John Hopper. 
Jules Margottiu. 
La France. 
La Reine. 
Louis Van Houtte. 
Louis Carique. 
Magna Charta. 
Mabel Morrison. 
Madame Gabriel Luizet. 
Madame Victor Verdier. 
Marguerite de St. Amande. 
Marie Baumann. 
Marquise de Castellane. 
Marquise de Mortemart. 
Marshall P. Wilder. 
Maurice Bernanlin. 
Merveille de Lyon. 
Paul Neyron. 
Pierre Notting. 
Pceonia. 
Pride of Waltliam. 
Prince Camille de Rohan. 
Queen of Queens. 
Rev. J. B. McCamm. 
Paul’s Single Crimson. 
Paul’s Single White. 
Thomas Mills. 
Victor Verdier. 
White Baroness. 
REMONTANT MOSS. 
Blanche Moreau. 
Eugene de Savoie. 
Madame Edouard Ory. 
Salet. 
JUNE MOSS. 
Common Red. 
Princesse Adelaide. 
Comtesse de Murinais. 
Rosa Rugosa. 
climbing. 
Queen of the Prairies. 
Baltimore Belle, 
Fig. 85. 
PURITAN. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Rose Sketches. From JSTature. 
MME. GABRIEL LUIZET. 
