1897 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Fragrant Roses. 
E. V., Passaic Go., N. J .—I am ofteu disap¬ 
pointed by lack of fragrance In my bedding 
roses; even the Teas ordinarily supposed to be 
sweet are wanting in this particular. Will you 
name some really fragrant bedding roses ? 
Ans. —The fragrance is very faint in 
many of our Teas, though this class 
must be regarded as the sweetest of 
cultivated roses. Souvenir de Wootton, 
Papa Gontier, Gloire de Dijon, Brides¬ 
maid, Catherine Mermet, La France, 
Mme. Caroline Testout, Safrano and 
Meteor are all sweet and suitable for 
bedding. The quality of the fragrance 
differs greatly in different sorts, the 
Tea odor being more pronounced with 
some than others. 
Osage Orange Hedge. 
iept down to the night standard during 
daytime. The ventilators are both 
opened and closed very gradually, noth¬ 
ing being more likely to produce mil¬ 
dew on roses than an abrupt change of 
temperature. 
Early Phloxes. 
K. P., Passaic County , N. J .—My border of 
Phlox panlculata, while looking well, is not yet 
in bloom, while a neighbor has a quantity flow¬ 
ering. Why are they so much earlier ? 
Ans. —It is likely that your neighbor’s 
plants are Phlox suffruticoaa, which 
blooms much earlier than P. paniculata. 
The flowers are arranged in pyramidal 
panicles, instead of being as flat as those 
of the later variety. The colors are 
quite similar to those of Paniculata, but 
do not show so great a variety, for while 
European hybridizers have experiment¬ 
ed a great deal with Paniculata, they 
seem to have devoted little care to the 
Suffruticosa section, which gives us 
showy beds in June and July. Suffruti¬ 
cosa does not grow as tall as Paniculata, 
rarely exceeding 18 inches in height. It 
is a very thrifty grower, and not so sub¬ 
ject to mildew as the later Phloxes. If 
the stems are removed as soon as the 
blooms have faded, a second crop of 
flowers is produced in August. By a 
proper selection of varieties, it is possi¬ 
ble to make a show of blooming Phloxes 
from early spring to late autumn. 
Af. S, Parnell, Ga .—T wish to plant an Osage 
orange hedge around my farm. Will you tell me 
about the cultivation, time of planting, prepara¬ 
tion of ground, etc. ? 
Ans —Young plants grown from seed 
will answer for the hedge in two years. 
Nurserymen offer one-year plants for 
$5 a thousand, and two-year plants for 
$6 a thousand. Some prefer single rows, 
some double. They may be set all the 
way from a foot to six feet apart, 
depending upon the purpose for which 
they are desired. Plant them in trenches 
and keep the soil of the trenches mel¬ 
low and free of weeds until the 03 age 
orange plants take possession. When 
once started, they grow very rapidly, 
and need a good deal of trimming to 
keep in bounds. Seed of the Osage 
orange is sown in spring, after being 
soaked in warm water for a few days. 
Roses for Winter Blooming. 
B. V., Deer Lodge County , Mont .—What temper¬ 
ature is required for winter-blooming roses? 
Ans. —The temperature varies some¬ 
what with the variety; we imagine, how¬ 
ever, that B. V. wishes to grow Teas 
and Hybrid Teas, such as are ordinarily 
forced commercially, and most of these 
require a temperature in the vicinity of 
GO degrees at night. Catherine Mermet, 
The Bride, Bridesmaid and Papa Gon¬ 
tier prefer a little lower temperature 
than some of the others, and 55 to GO de¬ 
grees at night will suit them best ; even 
50 degrees will not cause a check. Perle 
des Jardins, though often grown in with 
the above varieties, does best at from 60 
to 63 degrees. La France thrives with 
little change from 62 degrees at night. 
Meteor requires a much higher tempera¬ 
ture than any other rose grown for forc¬ 
ing. preferring 68 to 70 degrees at night. 
American Beauty does best where the 
temperature does not fall below 58, or 
rise above 63 degrees. When a crimson 
rose is required in a general rose house, 
where such varieties as Bride, Brides¬ 
maid, Perle des Jardins, etc., are grown 
together, Souvenir de Wootton should 
be selected. While night temperature 
is taken as a basis for consideration, 
with sun heat the warmth increases 
rapidly during the day, this giving the 
opportunity for abundant air. Of course 
it is not expected that, even with free 
ventilation, the temperature will be 
Roses for Massachusetts. 
H. It. D , Boston, Mass. —What variety of roses 
would you recommend for this section, both 
Hybrid ftemontants and Everblooming sorts? □ 
Ans —The following list is a good 
selection for your locality : Hybrid Re- 
montants : Alfred Colomb, carmine crim¬ 
son, globular and full, very fragrant ; 
Paul Neyron, rose, very large ; Mrs. 
John Laing, clear bright pink; Ulrich 
Brunner, velvety cherry red; Mme. 
Gabriel Luizet, satiny pink ; Jules Mar- 
gottin, carmine rose, rather flat, but 
free and hardy; Margaret Dickson, 
white, center pale flesh, very fine ; 
Baron de Bonstetten, velvety maroon, 
excellent ; Fisher Holmes, bright deep 
red, like Gen. Jacqueminot, but an im¬ 
provement on that popular sort. 
Of Everblooming roses, we should rec¬ 
ommend these: Souvenir de Wootton, 
rosy crimson, large and sweet; Gloire 
de Dijon, rosy salmon and yellow ; Papa 
Gontier, carmine; Souvenir de la Mal- 
maison, flesh shaded fawn; Clothilde 
Soupert, flesh white, rosy center ; Fran- 
cisca Kruger, chamois yellow shaded 
fawn and rose; Agrippina, rich crim¬ 
son ; Hermosa, bright rose. 
A Book About House Plants. 
Reliable books on house plants, writ¬ 
ten from the standpoint of the amateur, 
MOTHERS. —Be sure to use “Mrs. Wins¬ 
low’s Soothing Syrup ” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Acbv. 
are not very plentiful, and the new 
handbook, entitled House Plants and 
How to Succeed With Them, by Lizzie 
Page Hillhouse, will, doubtless, find an 
interested audience. It contains 220 
pages, freely illustrated, and has chap¬ 
ters upon bulbs, cacti, ferns, flowering 
and foliage plants, lilies, palms, shrubs, 
vines, propagation of plants, etc. The 
book is not intended for the use of pro¬ 
fessional gardeners, but written by a 
woman, and for women. It touches 
upon many points which would scarcely 
occur to florists, though they often 
puzzle amateurs. It is certainly a very 
useful little handbook, and likely to be¬ 
come exceedingly popular with the class 
of readers whose especial needs are con¬ 
sulted. The price of the book is $1. 
Protecting Fig Bushes. 
E. A'., Boston, Mass .—In The R. N.-Y., page 420, 
B. B. asks bow to protect fig busbes. I have kept 
sucb busbes for the past four years, and never 
lost the smallest twig. First I tie the bushes to¬ 
gether and bend them slowly, during one or two 
days, toward the ground, driving stakes in on 
either side as high as the bushes are, which is 
about one foot from the ground. A few strips 
are nailed across, and the bushes inclosed with 
straw, the whole beiDg covered with boards 
nailed together. Leaves are heaped on top, the 
leaves covered with earth until it is a good solid 
mound patted down with a spade. Another layer 
of leaves on top is kept in place with wire net¬ 
ting. My bushes have stems 1J4 inch in diameter, 
and are seven to eight feet high. 
R. N -Y.—Tbe method described by E. 
K. is found useful with many tender de¬ 
ciduous shrubs, besides figs. Large rose 
bushes of tender varieties are treated 
this way satisfactorily. 
Seasonable Notes. 
A highly ornamental, but little-known 
shrub, giving a good effect now, is the 
Variegated Diervilla (Weigela) It is a 
dwarf grower, forming a very compact 
bush, the leaves freely variegated with 
yellow and white. The flowers are deep 
rose. 
The most vivid red Canna now in 
bloom is Beaut6 Poitevine. The flowers 
are of medium size, narrower-petaled 
than the newest orchid-flowered type, 
but the spike is shapely, and the color 
unequaled among pure reds. It is of 
medium height, with bright shining 
green leaves, and forms a very vivid 
combination with the golden-flowered 
Eldorado. 
The earliest roses were not much 
troubled with Rose chafers this year, 
neither did we notice them on the 
cherry trees, as usual. But they were 
here in legions ready for the double 
Deutzias, and the later roses are covered 
with them. Plenty of toads are noticed 
among the rose bushes, watching for 
any insects that may fall, but as a rule, 
the Rose chafers are out of their reach, 
so we must lessen their numbers by jar¬ 
ring them into a vessel containing kero¬ 
sene and water. The Blister beetles 
have not yet appeared, but they will 
doubtless be on hand in time to lunch 
on our choicest China asters. 
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Cotton Exposition. New Orleans. 1884. 
HIGHEST AWARDS—Nebraska Agricultural Fair, 1887. 
DIPLOMA—Alabama Agr’l Society, Montgomery, 1888. 
AWARD—Chattahoochie Valley Exposition, Colum¬ 
bus, Ga., 1888. 
HIGHEST AWARDS—St. Louis Agricultural and 
Mechanical Association, 1889. 
GOLD MEDALS and 6 DIPLOMAS—World’s Colum¬ 
bian Exposition. Chicago. 1893. 
HIGHEST AWARDS—Western Fair Association, Lon¬ 
don, Canada, 1893. 
SIX GOLD MEDALS and Di plomas—C al. Midwinter Fair '94. 
SILVER MEDAL —Industrial Exp osition, Toronto, Canada, 1895. 
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