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Wilder. Both we believe are seedlings of 
Gen. Jacqueminot, Colomb by Lacharme in 
1865, and Wilder by Ellwanger & Barry a few 
years ago. There are few better hardy roses. 
Grace Darling we have elsewhere referred 
to as one of the best of the Teas for bedding. 
The buds are large, the petals recurve 
beautifully. The bottom of the petals is a 
yellowish white, changing gradually to pink 
upwards. The odor is delicate. This, as we 
have also said, stood the winter of 1886 with 
protection. It is a distinct fine rose. 
Etienne Levet is a Hybrid Remontant by 
Levet in 1871. The color is a most pleasing 
carmine or pink. The buds are nearly round 
and the petals unfold slowly for several days 
without showing the center of the flower. 
The stems are strong and long. The calyx 
gives a good support to the outer petals. The 
flower is fairly fragrant and of medium size. 
Charles Margottin, a Hybrid Remon¬ 
tant, is a shade lighter than Jacq. with long 
calyx sepals often as large as the leaflets pro¬ 
per. It makes a fine bud. Ellwanger & Bar¬ 
ry say that it retains its color well and that 
it is an excellent distinct variety. 
Caroline de Sansal is a H. R. of French 
origin in 1850. It is said to be best in the au¬ 
tumn. With us the flowers are of a faded 
rose color, cupped or flat, medium size. 
Angele Jacquier is one of the finest Teas 
in the open ground we have seen. It is of a 
light rose color nearly white, with a faint 
tint of yellow outside and the faintest blush 
of rose on the inner petals. The petals are 
like wax and the half opened bud exquisite. 
The rose has not many petals, yet they are 
enduring and not at all flimsy. 
Crested Moss. The R. N.-Y. illustrated 
this a few months ago. The bud is of a rose 
color and peculiarly pretty on account of 
the crest of fringe with which the alternate 
sepals are provided. The entire calyx is not 
covered with moss as in other moss roses. It 
is an old rose and very desirable for bouquets. 
The plant is very hardy and free from mil¬ 
dew. 
BOURBONS, NOISETTES, TEAS, HYBRID 
TEAS, POLYANTHAS AND HYBRID 
REMONTANTS. 
Bourbon Roses. —These are not, for the 
most part, hardy without protection, though 
a few varieties are quite hardy. They bloom 
at intervals during the entire season, grow 
rapidly and are prized for their fall bloom. 
They are but feebly fragrant and the flowers 
are borne in clusters. Queen of the Bourbons, 
rose color and fragrant; Louise Odier, rose 
color and one of the hardiest; Apolline, one 
of the best in the open ground; Duchesse de 
Thuringe, white; George Peabody, crimson, 
fragrant, and Souvenir de la Malmaisoh, 
blush, are among the best. 
Noisette Roses. —These, as they are now 
known, are less hardy than the Bourbons, as 
many of the so-called Noisettes are really 
Noisette-Teas. The original Noisette is itself 
a cross between the Musk Rose and China. 
The flowers are usually borne in clusters de¬ 
pending upon the amount of Tea blood in the 
variety. The Noisettes are valuable as pillar 
roses. W. A. Richardson, Salfaterre, Mard- 
chal Niel, Lainarque, one of the finest climb¬ 
ers under glass, and Chromatella are among 
the best. 
Tea Roses give the greatest variety of 
colors—white, yellow, straw, rose, gold, sal¬ 
mon—some of them the most delicate tints 
imaginable. These should be called Perpet- 
uals, since they bloom more or less during the 
season. Many of our inexperienced readers 
are confused by the names under which roses 
are sold. Let them understand that all so- 
called “Everblooming” and “Monthly” roses 
are moie or less tender north of Virginia 
without careful protection and that with pro¬ 
tection they will as often perish as survive. 
The best way with all of this class of roses 
(Teas) is to take them up in the fall and place 
them in pots or under cover. Bougfere, Cath¬ 
erine Mermet, Bride, Coquette de Lyon, 
Grace Darling, Homer, Isabella Sprunt, La 
Reine, Angele Jacquier, Mme. Bravy, Mine. 
Mdlanie Willermoz, Marie Van Houtte, Niph- 
etos, Perle des Jerdins, Safrano and Som- 
breuil are among the very best for bedding 
purposes. 
Hybrid Teas. —We need here make but a 
brief reference to this comparatively new 
group of roses, as they are treated very fully 
elsewhere. The W. F. Bennett, which created 
such a furore three years ago, fails with us 
entirely out-of-doors. How the Puritan will 
behave is not known. Pierre Guillot, La 
France, Cheshuut Hybrid, Nancy Lee and 
Mme. Alex. Bernaix may be mentioned among 
the best for bedding. 
Polyantha Roses.—These are comparative¬ 
ly new in this country, having been intro¬ 
duced from Japan. The leaves are small, the 
plants of dwarf growth, bearing their little 
very double roses in clusters. They bloom 
constantly. The following of the older kinds 
have proved nearly hardy at the Rural 
Grounds: Paquerette, Mignonette and Cecile 
Brunner. 
Hybrid Perpetuals, or Hybrid Remont- 
ants. Those of us who love roses, and yet 
have little time and scant facilities for culti¬ 
vating or caring for them, will select most 
freely from this class. They need a rich, deep 
soil, and the beds should be cultivated often. 
But they will thrive very well''under neglect, 
and need no protection during the winter, 
though better for it. It is this class more 
than any other that commemorates June as 
the month of roses, though some of them bloom 
paringly in the fall. We would select the 
following as among the best: General Jacque¬ 
minot, Alfred Colomb or M. P. Wilder, Mad¬ 
ame Victor Verdier, Baroness Rothschild, La 
Reine, Mabel Morrison, Louis Van Houtte, 
Rev. J. B. McCamm, Francis Michelon, Bar- 
onne Prevost, Caroline de Sansal, Abel Grand, 
Anna de Diesbach, Boieldieu, Mary ,Rady, 
Queen of Waltham, Charles Lefebvre, Baron 
de Bonstetten, Pierre Notting and Prince Ca¬ 
mille. The list might be extended, of course, 
to hundreds. 
ROSES IN QUEBEC PROVINCE. 
In our garden there is a rose walk that gives 
us more satisfaction than any other part of 
the flower department. The bushes are now 
irregular in size, for many have been winter- 
killed, some varieties dying out altogether. 
R. rubiginosa is the Eglantine or Sweet 
Brier, a native of Europe, to be found in the 
fields and roadsides of the U. S. It grows from 
four to six feet high. The glands beneath the 
leaflets when rubbed are peculiarly fragrant. 
Flowers light red and fragrant. There are 
some 40 varieties, single and double, in culti¬ 
vation. 
R. micrantha, the Small-flowered Sweet- 
Brier, comes from Europe and is abundant 
along the roadsides of New England. It is a 
large shrub (six feet) and differs but little 
from the Eglantine. 
R. sempervirens, Evergreen Rose, is a clim¬ 
ber, bearing flowers of a rosy color in corymbs. 
The Virginia Lass is a variety of this. The 
Ayrshire Rose is like this. 
R. cinuamomea (Cinnamon Rose) grows 
from five to 10 feet high, bearing semi-double 
flowers of a pink or purple color. It is a na¬ 
tive of Europe. 
R. canina is the Dog Rose, a native of 
Europe, growing about six feet high. From 
this, or Burboniana, hundreds of cultivated 
varieties have sprung. 
R. centifolia or Provence Rose gives us the 
Moss and Cabbage roses. It is a native of 
Southern Europe. 
R. damascena, Damask Rose, is a native of 
the Levant, growing some three to four feet 
high. Among its many varieties we have the 
Monthly. 
R. alba, White Garden Rose, is from Ger¬ 
many, grows five to seven feet high. The 
flowers are in corymbs, sweet-scented and 
generally white. 
R. Muschata is the Musk Rose with its 
white fragrant flowers. 
SINGLE ROSES. Fig. 89 . 
But enough remain to give us great pleasure, 
and in part of the rows, are clumps of lilies 
that bloom in July after the first crop of roses 
have ceased to blossom. The Jacqueminot, 
La Reine, La France, Madame Plantier, Co¬ 
quette des Alps, Paul Neyron, Caroline de San- 
sal, 8nd many others are perfectly hardy 
with a covering such as we give our straw¬ 
berries ; but we have lost quite a number of 
the newer varieties. The ground is kept cul¬ 
tivated by horse labor, being plowed, har¬ 
rowed and rolled in spring; then during the 
season the cultivator and roller keep the 
ground clean and smooth. In September 
there is a second and beautiful growth of the 
Hybrids, and they are a constant delight. 
Wood ashes are a good fertilizer, and a mulch 
of manure after the first cultivating is very 
good. So we agree with the RtRAL, x>lant 
roses , they are indeed worthy of love and 
care. annie l. jack. 
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BOTANICAL ROSE NOTES. 
RoSAsetigera. From this, a native of Mich¬ 
igan and other Western States, come the old 
Baltimore Belle and some 30 other kinds of 
hardy climbing roses. They often grow 20 
feet in hight. The flowers are in clusters, not 
very fragrant or of long duration. 
R. lsevigata is the Cherokee Rose. It is 
found in Florida north to Tennessee,but China 
is its native land we believe. The flowers are 
large, white and the plants form an almost 
impervious hedge. 
R. multiflora is the Many-flowered or Japan 
Rose. The flowers are white and rose-colored 
borne in corymbs. It is found in the South 
and is a native of Japan. 
R. bracteata is a native of China. It is 
known in the South as the Macartney Rose. 
The flowers are solitary, large and white. 
There are varieties bearing flowers from 
cream-colored to scarlet. 
R. lucida, the Shining Rose is a shrub two 
feet high found in dry woods throughout the 
country bearing pale red flowers. 
R. nitida is another native wild rose found 
in wet woods of New England. 
R. blanda (Bland Rose) is found in the 
Northern and Middle States. It grows three 
feet high. Flowers medium size and reddish 
in color. 
R. Carolina (Carolina Rose or Swamp Rose) 
bears flowers varying from white to red in 
corymbs. It grows in our swamps. 
R. Indica is the Chinese Monthly or Bengal 
Rose bearing flowers of every color almost. 
This gives us the Teas, Noisettes. 
R. Gallica, is the Common French Rose. 
Hundreds of kinds have originated from this, 
the old red rose of our gardens. 
R. pimpinellifolia is the Scotch or Burnet 
Rose, a native of Scotland and bearing small 
flowers usually rose-colored, but changing in 
its varieties to white, red and yellow. The 
bushes grow about three feet high, bearing 
lots of flowers in June. 
R. Banksia (Banks’s Rose) is from China. 
They are thornless shrubs bearing small cup¬ 
shaped flowers. This is a fine rose in the 
South. It is not hardy north of Virginia. 
The flowers bloom in clusters- early in the 
season and have a distinct violet perfume. 
The best varieties are Fortunei and Grandi- 
flora. 
During a late meeting of thelgrand'old 
Mass. Horticultural Society Mr. W. H. Spoon¬ 
er delivered an excellent address on roses, in 
the course of which he said that plants on 
their own roots are of slow growth, making 
very fine roots and requiring from two to 
three years, or more, to become good, substan¬ 
tial plants, equal in strength to those rooted 
on Manetti stock, at one-third the age. In 
using Manetti stocks if planted two or three 
inches below the collar or junction of the bud 
with the stock, the rose will throw out roots 
of its own, and with this addition will pro¬ 
duce plants of remarkable vigor. A very 
good method of developing the roots rapidly 
is to tongue the collar of the bud by paring 
up a strip of the bark about one inch long on 
one side of the collar, and planting this be¬ 
low the surface. 
A bed of Tea roses should accompany the 
Hybrid Perpetuals in every garden, for the 
purpose of prolonging the blooming term, as 
the Teas are the only true perpetuals. They 
should be planted in beds in a rather dry pos¬ 
ition, somewhat shaded from the strong sun, 
and in regular rows, so that the plants can be 
covered with soil, leaves or litter for their pro¬ 
tection. The best way is to place soil and leaves 
about the plants in alternate layers; thes 
freeze together and make a solid barrier against 
the inroads of moles or mice, They will well 
repay the trouble by a magnificent display 
of flowers, coming into bloom quite early 
and continuing until late in autumn. Mr. 
Spooner has grown Devoniensis, one of the 
most tender of this class, for five or six years 
in the same position, and the plants have grad¬ 
ually increased in size from year to year. He 
cut Devoniensis and Gloire de Dijon roses on 
the 5th of June last. The latter is one of the 
hardiest varieties of this class for bedding pur¬ 
poses. Other excellent kinds are Mme. Lam- 
bard, Maria Van Houtte, Perle des Jardins, 
Souvenir d’un Ami and Sunset. Homer is a 
little gem, and quite sturdy in constitution. 
We must bear in mind that it is in this class 
that we find our yellow roses, in which Hyb¬ 
rid Perpetuals are lacking. 
Some of the Noisettes should be included in 
a bed of Teas, as Celine Forestier, pale yellow, 
fine and fragrant, and Mme. Caroline Kuster, 
globular flower, pale yellow, free. Mardchal 
Niel can be used as a climber or pillar rose, 
and laid down in the autumn, to be covered 
with soil, as is done with the raspberry; it will 
then withstand the winter, and if cut back 
slightly in the spring will produce a good crop 
of rich golden-yellow flowers the following 
summer. 
Having selected our varieties and properly 
planted them in the fall, drawn the soil nicely 
about the plants from eight to twelve inches 
high, and heaped about this either manure or 
spent hops, as early in April as the ground is 
dry enough to work freely, level off the soil in 
the rows, covering the manure under as much 
as possible if it was put on in the fall. In a 
few days, when the buds have swelled suffi¬ 
ciently to show their condition, the plants 
should be cutback to the plumpest bud, cut¬ 
ting in the weakest growers to within four or 
six buds above the ground, particularly if 
growing for exhibition purposes; if largo 
blooms are not required the shoots may be left 
longer. The strong growers must be left as 
long as sound buds and wood will admit. In¬ 
tersecting shoots should also be cut out so as 
to leave the center of the plant with a free 
exposure to the air and sun, for it is among 
these short stems that the red spider and other 
pests harbor in the summer. 
Best Hardy Roses.—T he following is Mr. 
Spooner’s list of what he considers the best 
Hybrid Perpetuals: 
Alfred Colomt). 
Chs. Lefebvre. 
John Hopper. 
Hippolyte Jamaln. 
Marie Baumann. 
Mile. Annie Wood. 
Anna de Diesbach. 
Baroness Rothschild. 
Dr. Audry 
Duchesse de Vallombrosa 
Dupuy Jamaln. 
Jules Margottin. 
La France. 
Mme. Gabriel Luizet. 
Mme. Victor Verdier. 
Mervelllede Lyon. 
Prince Camille do Rohan. 
Ulrich Brunner. 
Victor Verdier. 
foregoing list, with 
Mabel Morrison. 
Marquise de Castellane. 
Mile. Eugenie Verdier. 
Mons. Boncenne. 
Paul Neyron. 
Prince Arthur. 
For the best 25 roses the 
the addition of: 
For the best thirty-six 
and 
Catharine Soupert. 
Camille Bernardlu. 
Countess of Roseberry. 
Duke of Edinburgh- 
Etienne Levet. 
Fisher Holmes. 
roses, the foregoing 
Francois Michelon. 
Louise Van Houtte. 
Maurice Bernardin. 
Pierre Notting. 
Thomas Mills. 
No two authors, says Mr. H. B. Eliwauger’s 
excellent book on The Rose, exactly agree as 
to the different groups under which roses 
should be classified. Crossing has been car¬ 
ried to such aD extent between different groups 
by both natural and artificial means, that it 
would be remarkable to find two writers who 
would assign the same varieties throughout to 
the same classes. 
Summer Roses are those which bloom but 
once during the season, in June and July. Of 
these we have the Climbing Roses, known as 
Ayrshire, Banksia, Prairie, etc., the Austrain 
Briar, Damask, Hybrid China, Moss, Prov¬ 
ence, etc. 
Perpetual or Autumnal Roses are those 
which bloom more than once during the sea¬ 
son, many of them continuously from June to 
November as, for example, the Polyantha 
Roses, which are hardy enough to endure the 
winters at the Rural Grounds. The Hybrid 
Perpetual or Hybrid Remontant, which belong 
to this class, are the most valuable, if not the 
most beautiful of all groups, though the var¬ 
ieties most prized for permaneut bedding 
plants do most of their blooming in early 
summer. A few of them yield a few flowers 
in the fall. We agree with Mr. Ellwanger 
and Mr. Parsons, therefore, that they should 
be known as Hybrid Remontants rather than 
as Hybrid Perpetuals. 
The Hybrid Tea Rose is a new group, pro¬ 
duced by crossing the Teas with Hybrid Per¬ 
petuals. Some of these will endure our win¬ 
ters with protection. Among Hybrid Teas 
may be mentioned La France, Cheshunt Hyb¬ 
rid, Her Majesty, William Francis Bennett, 
etc. 
Tea Roses, says Mr. Ellwanger, may well be 
taken for all that is delicately beautiful. We 
