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THE RURAL NEW -V ORKER 
Juno 13, 
Ruralisms 
Interesting New Roses. —New roses 
appear by the score, but few are suffi¬ 
ciently distinct to merit consideration, 
and a still greater proportion are not 
adapted for general culture. We test 
the best procurable novelties each sea¬ 
son, and occasionally find an acquisi¬ 
tion. The standard of desirability is 
constantly rising, and a variety that a 
few years ago would find acceptance is 
little wanted to-day. The following ap¬ 
pear to have distinctive merit and are 
likely to be much planted: 
Lyon. —In 1900 there was introduced 
to commerce under the name of Soleil 
d’Or (Golden Sun) a most striking 
orange and yellow hardy rose, a success¬ 
ful hybrid between Persian Yellow, 
a double-flowered form of the Asiatic 
yellow rose, Rosa lutea, and a red 
Remontant garden rose. High hopes 
were entertained of the usefulness of 
this distinct new variety for general 
garden purposes, as the imported plant 
bloomed freely and appeared to possess 
considerable vigor. Repeated trials, 
however, showed that Golden Sun, at¬ 
tractive though it was, did not take 
kindly to the American climate. Plants 
declined to become established, and per¬ 
ished in a season or two, even under the 
most considerate treatment. The orig¬ 
inator has produced a number of crosses 
of Golden Sun of even greater merit 
than the original. One of these, bred 
again to Madame Melanie Soupert, gave 
rise to the Lyon rose, which has re¬ 
ceived the highest awards wherever 
shown in Europe. Lyon retains to 
some extent the dark foliage of 
Rosa lutea, and is a rapid, vigorous 
grower and free bloomer. The flowers 
are large and full, with broad petals of 
thick, waxy texture, remaining long in 
good condition. Fig. 229, page 503, 
shows the very attractive form of the 
developed blooms. The color is very 
pleasing, a soft but glowing salmon pink 
with yellow shadings in the center. If 
Lyon turns out really hardy in the sense 
of being long-lived under ordinary gar¬ 
den conditions it will be a most desir¬ 
able addition. 
Gottleib Keller. —This is another di¬ 
lute hybrid of Rose lutea. The parentage 
is given as Austrian Brier, pollinated with 
a Tea variety. The hybrid is of un¬ 
usually strong growth, with broad foliage 
in which there is little hint of the yel¬ 
low brier. The blooms are very large, 
semi-double, with thick shell-like petals, 
rose pink in color with yellow center 
and conspicuous yellow stamens. They 
are freely borne in clusters. 
Countess of Gosford is an English 
production, also pinkish salmon with 
yellow shadings. The flowers are large 
and full, with long petals, and are car¬ 
ried well above the foliage. Though a 
very handsome variety it suffers by 
comparison with Lyon. It has received 
high honors abroad. 
Betty is sent out by the introducer 
of the now famous pink rose Killarney. 
It is a good grower, with broad foliage. 
The blooms are large, and produced 
with much freedom. The coloring is 
light coppery rose, and there is a partic¬ 
ularly pleasant fragrance. 
Dean Hole is named in honor of the 
famous English writer on rose culture. 
The plant is sturdy, with broad, shining 
leaves, the blooms of great size and good 
substance, with fine pointed form in the 
bud. The color may be described as 
light silvery carmine, with shadings of 
salmon. It is already popular abroad, 
and bids fair to be useful in this country. 
Etoile de France is certainly the 
best dark red free-blooming variety for 
garden culture. The immense, densely 
double garnet-red blooms are borne on 
long, almost thornless shoots. It has 
rich dark foliage and is as hardy as any 
Hybrid Tea. We have successfully 
grown it for four years. 
Richmond. —This new American forc¬ 
ing rose has become very popular, re¬ 
placing such meritorious old kinds as 
Liberty and Meteor. Its great value, 
aside from its bright crimson color, lies 
in its peculiarity of bearing all blooms 
on extra long, straight stems, making 
them very useful for cutting. In the 
garden it proves rather tender, but is a 
beautiful addition where it flourishes. 
Anchen Muller. —The wide popular¬ 
ity of the '‘Baby Rambler” rose (Mme. 
Norbert Levavasseur) with its rather 
harsh crimson color, has encouraged 
raisers to attempt the production of 
other dwarf ever-bloomers of similar 
often when there is no lightning and 
thunder accompanying the cloud and 
often when no rain falls, as for instance 
thunder heads. But to be most efficient 
such points should be very sharp and 
free from rust or corrosion. 2. It is far 
safer to put rods in direct contact with 
every metal part of a building than to 
use any common style of insulation, for 
the reason that all such parts are con¬ 
ductors to a greater or less extent and 
help to diffuse the current and carry it 
to the ground. Further than this, the 
moment the glass of the insulator be¬ 
comes wet it becomes a conductor and 
so really has no tendency to keep the 
electricity from the building. 
j. s. WOODWARD. 
type. Two pink “Babies’ are now be¬ 
fore the public—Baby Dorothy, known 
abroad as Maman Levavasseur, and An¬ 
chen Muller, catalogued here simply as 
Pink Baby. The latter is more like the 
usual dwarf Polyantha in habit, and 
makes a beautiful pot plant. The blooms 
are an unusually lively shade of rose 
pink, and the petals are curled in an odd 
manner, producing a pleasing fluffy ef¬ 
fect. It appears to be continually in 
bloom, and has a particularly neat, well- 
branched habit. The foliage is good, 
about as near mildew-proof as the Tea 
rose, Princess de Sagan. If it proves to 
be as hardy as the other Ramblers it will 
be a most useful rose for bedding and 
garden effects. Baby Dorothy has been 
imported in some quantity, and very 
good reports are made of it by nursery¬ 
men in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y. 
The American trade name was suggest¬ 
ed from the similarity of the color of 
its very numerous blooms with those of 
the popular climbing variety Dorothy 
Perkins. The flowers are large for the 
type, and are produced in dense clusters 
throughout the entire Summer—a good 
plant often having as many as 120 well- 
developed buds and blossoms at the 
same time. It will doubtless be freely 
used, both as a garden bedder and as 
a decorative pot plant. 
Flowers in Plenty. —The present 
Memorial Day finds abundance of out¬ 
door bloom for decorative purposes. 
Last year little was to be had but lilacs, 
Crimson clover and wild daisies. 
Viburnums and Weigelas are much re¬ 
lied on in normal seasons, but owing to 
the chilly weather that preceded last 
Memorial Day they were not far enough 
advanced to be useful. This season has 
been warmer than the average, and even 
Philadelphus, better known as Syringas 
or mock oranges, are in heavy bloom, 
nearly 10 days before their usual time. 
Few shrubs are more acceptable for the 
purpose than the mock oranges. Their 
On page 105 is an article by T. IT. King 
on crown gall. I agree with Mr. King on 
the worthlessness of apple trees infested 
with crown gall. Here in this part of 
Oklahoma I think at least 90 per cent of 
the diseased trees die before they have been 
planted four years, and long before they 
die the infested trees are easily found by 
their slow growth and run down appear¬ 
ance. In an orchard of about 76 young 
apple trees planted the Spring of 1906 all 
diseased trees are dead except two: 21 
have died to date. Their death may have 
been hastened by the severe drought last 
Fall, but it is my opinion that an apple 
tree infested with crown gall is as good as 
dead and had best be removed a s soon as 
discovered. G. a. w. 
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