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FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Our rose garden, to which we turn 
when wishing* to express regard or sympa¬ 
thy with others, by sprays, or a basket 
perhaps of fragrant roses, must* be care¬ 
fully planned. Mrs. McCarty has given 
us in her report for 1905, most complete 
and valuable directions for planting and 
caring* for roses. My list will include 
Bride and Bridesmaid, American Belle, 
Richmond, Andre Schwartz, Kaiserin 
Augusta Victoria, Madam: Lambard, Pa¬ 
pa Gontier, Madam Cochet, La France 
both pink and white, Cecil Bruner, Duch¬ 
ess de Brabant and Magna Charta. Climb¬ 
ers Devoniensis, Gloire de Dijon, Chrome- 
tela or cloth of gold, Reve d’or. Madam 
Peary or climbing Kaiserin, Adelia Prae- 
del and climbing Meteor. 
These roses are well adapted to our cli¬ 
mate and conditions. Madam Lambard is 
'unsurpassed as a geoieral uitility rose. 
During the entire year this rose with Ce¬ 
cil Bruner and Duchess de Brabant will 
continue to give us fine buds and flowers. 
Even the thrip, that inveterate rose pest, 
has little taste for these three varieties. 
In our planting and arrangement we 
must give due attention, not only to detail 
but also to general and harmonious effect. 
From the lists which I have given, com¬ 
binations and groupings can be made of 
infinite variety. 
I will close with mention of that won¬ 
drous vine, so dear to tourists and so faith¬ 
ful in its efforts to adorn the waste places 
as well as the gardens. The native flora 
of Florida would lack its crowning glory 
in the absence of the Yellow Jessamine. 
Report of Committee on Peaches^ Plums and Pears. 
By Aubrey Frink. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 
I have not prepared any paper on peach¬ 
es, pears and plums, for the reason that I 
could not get, prior to coming here, just 
the information that I wanted. I under¬ 
stand that Mr. Shooter is now in Europe, 
andl today I talked to Mr. Klemm and he 
has no report to make. 
This season has been a hard one on 
peaches as well as oranges. In fact, for a 
year they have suffered. Last year being 
wet, was hard; then coming* that severe 
cold at Christmas time which alone would 
not have done so much damage, but comi- 
bined with wet weather and succeeding 
dry weather, together with the April cold, 
has done a great deal of damage to peach¬ 
es. From information that I can get, it 
seems that the crop is very short. Some 
people claim that their crop will not be 
more than twenty-five per cent. At some 
places around Lake Helen and DeLand 
the per cent is a little better. The trees, 
also suffered 'a great many offsets on ac¬ 
count of the cold, wet and drought. 
However, I do not think that they are in 
any worse shape than the oranges, which 
suffered by drought and cold. 
