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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET.. 
temperature may range from 60° to 80° in the day-time, 
and from 40° to 50° at night. 
Roses that have been bedded out, and allowed to 
flower continuously all summer, will not give as good 
satisfaction as winter bloomers if potted for that pur¬ 
pose. The plants must have due time to form fresh 
rootlets in the soil before the leaves and young growth 
commence their work; and by the time they are in a 
condition to put out buds, winter will have nearly, if 
not quite passed away. I find it a much better way to 
reserve a few plants foY winter, and prepare them 
specially for the purpose, and let those that have 
flowered in summer rest in cold weather. 
A good soil for potting Roses is two-thirds good mel¬ 
low, sandy-loam, and one-third of thoroughly-decayed 
manure. Make the soil firm about the roots when pot¬ 
ting; they will not do well if set in loosely. 
Now, while we can grow Roses in pots successfully, in 
the common acceptation of the term, and get from them 
a fair percentage of flowers, to rise above the average, 
to bring out the full measure of their beauty and 
worth, they should be planted directly in the ground in 
a deep, rich, moderately stiff soil. * 
A bed of Roses under thorough cultivation, and in 
the zenith of their glory is a grand sight, and one that 
cannot be rivaled. Beauty and sweetness, in their full 
completeness, is vividly portrayed in the perfect bud 
and blossom of the Rose. 
For pot culture, or for beds, I like the ever-blooming 
varieties best, because we can have them continuously all 
summer and autumn: while the hardy varieties known as 
hybrid perpetual after giving us one full blossoming in 
June, are entirely wanting in the perpetual character 
that their name indicates, for they fail to produce any 
more flowers until September or October, and then but 
sparingly. 
The term “perpetual ” applied to that class of Roses, 
is a misnomer, according to the signification of Web¬ 
ster ; and it has caused a great deal of disappointment 
among amateur florists. The term, I believe, is an En¬ 
glish one, and doubtless appropriate in that country, 
where the hybird perpetual class is said to grow and 
bloom without ceasing from June to October. 
The flowers of this class are very beautiful and sweet, 
and as they stand the rigor of our cold Northern win¬ 
ter in the open ground, they are a valuable acquisition 
to the garden. These Roses are not suitable for house 
culture, and those who select them for this purpose, ex¬ 
pecting to reap a continual harvest of blooms, will get 
sadly disappointed ; they will find them wanting in the 
special requisite of the ever-bloomers. 
The list of ever-blooming Roses is such an extensive 
one, and all are so well worthy of culture, it seems un¬ 
necessary to specify varieties. 
The Rose, as a genus, is universally admired ; it has 
figured in history to a greater extent than any other 
flower. Since the War of the Roses, it has been the dis¬ 
tinctive badge of England. It first appears upon the 
great seal of Edward IV., and it is to be found on the 
great seal of all the succeeding monarchs down to 
James II. Its first appearance in the coinage was on 
the rose-noble in the reigns of Henry VI. The Rose 
commands our especial admiration, and many a lov¬ 
ing tribute has been paid it in poetry and song, from 
time immemorial, and yet the half has not been told. 
“ Oh. Roses! Roses! who shall sing 
The beauty of the flowers of God; 
Or, thank the angel from whose wing 
The seeds are scattered on the sod, 
From which such bloom and perfume spring. 
Oh, sweetest flowers! Oh, flowers that hold 
The fragrant life of Paradise! 
• For a brief day shut fold in fold, 
That we may drink it in a trice, 
And drop the empty pink and gold. 
—Mrs. G. W. Flanders. 
PYRETHRUM, OR CHRYSANTHEMUM CORYMBOSUM. 
This is a robust herbaceous plant with elegantly-cut 
foliage and white and yellow flower heads, known also 
in gardens as Pyrethrum corybosum. Under cultivation 
it grows about four feet high, and probably higher in 
rich soil. It is as hardy and persistent as the allied 
species, CV Parthenium, syn. Pyrethrum partheniurn, 
of which the Golden Feather is a variety. In a wild 
state it grows from one to three feet high, and it 
is a common plant in Central and Southern Europe, 
ranging from Portugal to Switzerland, Austria, and 
Turkey. 
The insecticide and insectifuge qualities of the dried 
and finely powdered flowerheads of different species of 
Pyrethrum and the harmlessness if the powder to man, 
to other animals, and to plants, have long since been 
known. Used against various household pests, under the 
names “ Persian insect powder” or “ Dalmatian insect 
powder,” it has hitherto been put up in small bottles or 
packages and sold at high prices. The so-called Persian 
powder is made from flowers of Pyrethrum carneum and 
P. roseum, while that from P. cineraria’/olium, a native 
of Dalmatia, Herzegovinia, and Montenegro, is 
more generally known as Dalmatian powder. Some 
interesting experiments made during past year on dif¬ 
ferent insects by Mr. William Saunders, of London, 
Ontario, show that the use of this powder may be satis¬ 
factorily extended beyond the household, while a series 
made by Professor Riley in the surcnner of 1878, with 
the same powder on the cotton worm, showed it to have 
striking destructive powers, the slightest puff of the 
powder causing certain death and the almost instant 
dropping of the worm from the plant. Repeated on a 
still more extensive scale the present year at Columbus, 
Texas, the powder proved equally satisfactory in the 
field. 
Here, then, we have a remedy far exceeding any other 
so far known in efficacy and harmlessness to man and 
plant, and the only question has been to reduce its cost. 
Mr. Milco, a native of Dalmatia, has been cultivating 
P. cineraricefolium in California in constantly increas¬ 
ing area for the past three years, and deserves great 
credit for his efforts in introducing it. The insect pow¬ 
ders made from the California-grown flowers have 
proved to be very effective.— Scientific American. 
