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which they should stand being in hot weather always kept 
damp, the moisture thus provided just suits their special 
requirements. As the autumn advances, and there is dan¬ 
ger from frost, remove the plants to a partially shaded 
house where they can have a little heat, when there is any 
risk of their being frozen. They should even, when the 
weather begins to get cool, remain on a moist bottom. If 
set on shelves, an inch of sphagnum placed under them 
and kept damp will be beneficial. As soon as they show 
signs of forming their flower-stems give manure-water at 
every alternate watering, but do not allow it to touch the 
leaves ; this will give strength and much increase the quan¬ 
tity of flowers they produce. The first sown will come 
into flower nicely by Christmas in a temperature of from 
40° to 45 0 at night, with a little more warmth in the day. 
The double-flowering cineraria is a novelty of recent in¬ 
troduction. The blossoms are about one inch across, per¬ 
fectly double, and form quite a rosette. The colors repre¬ 
sent bright magenta, bluish-purple shaded with violet, 
white tipped with violet, deep purple, and white heavily 
tipped with purple. The same improvement that is 
noticed in the single varieties is strongly marked in the 
double forms. One of the peculiarities of the double 
cineraria is its long continuance in bloom, the individual 
flowers lasting much longer than the single ones. This 
fact, together with their great attractiveness, must make 
them general favorites. The double cinerarias were first 
raised by Messrs. Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt, Prussia, more 
than fifteen years ago, showing that really good things are 
not always appreciated. 
ROSE GOSSIP. 
H OW to keep monthly roses in a dormant condition 
over winter is an interesting question, and may be 
answered in various ways. I can offer the following ex¬ 
perience, and have reason to be well pleased with the 
plan: A few years ago I procured from our village tin¬ 
smith a dozen baskets made of strips of sheet-iron about 
one and a half inches wide. When finished, they had 
the appearance of rough hanging baskets, and cost very 
little—not more than ten cents each. They were then 
sunk in the rose-bed, filled with rich earth, and in each 
one a monthly rose was planted. The roses grew as 
vigorously as if in open ground, and in the fall I was able 
to take them up without disturbing the roots to any in¬ 
jurious extent. To keep them over the winter was then 
the question, and having no suitable place, I decided to 
have a pit dug in the garden for them. A dry spot was 
chosen on which water would not be likely to lie, and a 
pit four and a half feet deep was made. In November 
the roses were taken up and placed in the bottom of the 
pit, and the space above them filled with evergreen 
branches, and over all was placed a covering of boards. 
I then waited until winter gave certain evidences of setting 
in, when a foot or so of earth as a finishing touch was 
thrown over the boards. As it was an experiment, I re¬ 
moved the covering the following spring with many mis¬ 
givings, but to my great gratification found my roses in 
excellent condition, safe and sound, with tender shoots 
already starting. I have since tried the same method each 
succeeding winter, and now' have plants four and five 
years old, large and bushy—in fact, equal in size to many of 
my hybrid remontants. With such plants one is sure of 
having beautiful roses in profusion continuously through¬ 
out the summer, instead of the fitful, uncertain bloom and 
scraggy flowers of the young plants of one season’s 
growth. 
The new roses of 1884-85 do not quite equal in number 
those of the preceding year, about seventy-five being 
offered, the French growers, as usual, furnishing the major 
portion of the novelties. The experience gained from 
former years assures us that a rigid application of the 
famous doctrine, “the survival of the fittest,” will eventu¬ 
ally reduce the number to very modest proportions. Could 
implicit faith be placed in the glowing descriptions given, 
we might then congratulate ourselves that at least a few 
stars of the first magnitude had made their appearance; 
such, for instance, as Gloire Lyonnaise, a yellow hybrid 
remontant, a color in that class which rosarians have 
struggled for years to produce, and for whose advent long¬ 
ing amateurs have sighed in vain. Another novelty in the 
most complete sense of the word, should its marvelous 
qualities bear out the description, is Lusiadas, a wonderful 
hybrid noisette, grown by Da Costa, of Lisbon. The flower 
is said to be large and full, of perfect form and superb bear¬ 
ing, the color chrome or golden yellow spotted with crim¬ 
son, plant bushy, very vigorous and remarkably free bloom¬ 
ing. The coloring is certainly unique, and I think the 
same may be said of the price, which is $10 per plant. A 
new class is inaugurated by the production of Pride of 
Reigate, the first striped hybrid remontant. The three 
foregoing roses are the most strikingly original of the new 
sorts, and it is devoutly to be hoped that the bright antici¬ 
pations to which their promises give rise may be fully re¬ 
alized, but time alone will tell. • 
Among the new French roses a very promising sort 
may be noted, Madame Massicault, a seedling from Ba- 
ronne de Rothschild, raised by Schwartz, of Lyons.- If it 
resembles the plate given in the October number of the 
Tournal des Roses, it is a lovely flower indeed, and will 
prove a dangerous rival to the well-nigh peerless Ba- 
ronne, to which it bears considerable resemblance in form, 
color and habit. It is a true perpetual, producing soli¬ 
tary flowers. 
Levegne sends out six hybrid remontants, one of which, 
Princess Amelie d’Orleans, is a lovely clear flesh-colored, 
flower—large, globular, and of exquisite form. Pernet, 
the producer of Merveille de Lyon, offers two novelties, 
a Bourbon, Mile. Berger, and Baronne Nathaniel de Roths¬ 
child, a hybrid remontant. It is unfortunate that he 
should have chosen a name for the latter so closely re¬ 
sembling that of the well-known Baronne de Rothschild, 
