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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
abundant water through droughty sea¬ 
sons, the bushes grow strongly with vig¬ 
orous foliage and bloom. 
Besides the usual insects, powerful 
enemies are the roots of the Live and 
Water Oaks. With some labor these 
have been measurably kept out by an¬ 
nually cutting a trench about the bowl, 
but this is an onerous task and some 
careless year I fear the roots will break 
in and strangle the ^roses. Therefore, 
plant roses many feet from any oak tree. 
I wish to say a word here for one of the 
most beautiful garden roses, one rarely 
seen in our Flopda gardens. Fortunes 
Yellow. There has been some confusion 
about its nomenclature. It is the fa¬ 
mous rose of Pasadena, California, that 
has long been the admiration of tourists, 
popularly, but erroneously called. Gold 
of Ophir, the* true Gold of Ophir being 
the old French rose, Ophirie, a more 
nearly perpetual bloomer but with com¬ 
paratively insignificant flowers. 
Fortunes Yellow is perhaps better 
known in California by its synonym. 
Beauty of Glazenwood, but by the law 
of priority the first name is entitled to 
precedence, this rose having been found 
and sent home from China in 1845 
Robert Fortune. It is of a pale yellow, 
shading into delicate salmon pink and 
quite unlike any other rose I am ac¬ 
quainted with. Unfortunately it is al¬ 
most deciduous in winter and it blossoms 
once a year, just as the Cherokee is go¬ 
ing off, but it makes such a unique and 
lovely display of color—for it is a pro¬ 
fuse bloomer—^that it is worth taking 
any reasonable amount of pains to pos¬ 
sess. 
Speaking of the Cherokee Rose, one 
of its seedlings, originating in Europe 
a few years since, is said to be a worthy 
companion for it. 
I only know of this novelty by hear¬ 
say, but Rosa sinica Anemone is de¬ 
scribed by the eminent rosarian, Edward 
Mawley, as promising to be even more 
beautiful than the Cherokee, being of a 
bright rose pink, unlike any other climb¬ 
er and, like its parent, a profuse bloom¬ 
er, of clean, strong foliage and a good 
grower. 
As to Conifers. We have had but lim¬ 
ited experience with these. The Deodar 
Cedar is said to grow well about Jack¬ 
sonville and would probably succeed at 
Ormond on good soil, planted on the 
usual sand, a tree lived for a few years, 
tried to look well, but finally starved to 
death. 
Cupressus Knightiana, a Mexican 
evergreen Cypress of vigorous growth 
and elegant habit, with drooping, fern¬ 
like, feathery branchlets and bluish- 
green foliage, grew about twenty-five 
feet high in ten years and looked well 
for a long time, but when cut down to 
make room for a building, showed signs 
of starvation. 
Cupressus excelsa, a Cypress native 
of the mountains of Guatemala, grew 
much the same way, but succumbed to 
the winter of ’94. 
Cupressus torulosa, a Himalayan Cy¬ 
press, grew rapidly but was finally starv¬ 
ed out. 
Cupressus funebris, an elegant, droop¬ 
ing Cypress from China, promised well, 
but gave out in a few years, probable 
cause, poor soil and perhaps cold snaps. 
We need for landscape effect in Flor¬ 
ida, a tall fastigiate tree like a Lombardy 
Poplar but evergreen, possibly Cupres¬ 
sus sempervirens, the Cypress of the 
Orient may serve our purpose. Those 
who have visited Mediterranean regions, 
or noticed pictures of Italian and oriental 
scenery will remember the stately effect 
