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HARDY HYBRID ROSES. 
In the fall of 1896 we imported from Germany a large col¬ 
lection of new fruit and ornamental shrubs and trees gathered 
together from many parts of the temperate zone says Professor 
N. E. Hansen, Brookings, S. D. Many of these flowered last 
year and are blooming again this year. Among the roses we 
find the Madame Charles Frederic Worth remarkable for its 
wonderfully free blooming habit. The flowers are in clusters, 
large, double, very fragrant, color a beautiful rosy crimson, 
changing to purple crimson as the flowers fade. The plant is 
a hybrid of the Rosa rugosa and has retained its sturdy habit 
and strong foliage. Last year this hybrid blossomed from 
July to the end of the season, and this year it began the middle 
of June and bids fair to repeat the performance. 
While promising to be valuable for general cultivation, the 
variety is not superior to many of the varieties obtained in 
1892 and 1893 at the Iowa Agricultural College by Prosessor 
Budd, assisted by the writer, by crossing the Russian Rosa 
rugosa with some of the choicest cultivated roses. These new 
varieties, which are now being propagated at Ames, retain in 
large measure the extreme hardiness and free blooming habit 
of this Russian wild rose, with the size and doubleness of flower 
of the garden varieties. There is a difference in the Rosa 
rugosa plants. Those from Japan are inferior in beauty and 
size of flower to those imported by Professor Budd from 
Russia, which came originally from Siberia. From the Russian 
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wild roses will come a long list of roses hardy throughout the 
Northwest, where the common garden roses winter kill. 
AT AMES, IOWA. 
After a visit to the agricultural college at Ames, la., Fred¬ 
erick Cranefield of the Wisconsin Experiment Station writes : 
“In the nursery are several rows of trees that in a year or 
two will prove objects of national interest in horticultural 
circles. These are the hybrid apples, crosses between the 
cream of the Russians and such sorts as Ben Davis, Jonathan. 
Osceola, etc. With apologies to Professor Budd and most of 
the Russians I venture the prediction that these and the seed¬ 
ling progeny of a small half-dozen of the 500 or more M’s 
Orels and Anisims will exist in the Northwest centuries after 
a patient and suffering, apple-eating public have consigned to 
a nameless grave all the rest of the Russian tribe, perhaps not 
namless either, for if the parties that do the buying have any 
sense of the fitness of things they will inscribe : ‘ Here lies 
the hardiest as well as the toughest and most palatable set of 
apples ever gotten together in any two centuries.’ 
“ P. S.—‘ Here also lie the Russian plums.' ” 
ARIZONA WONDERS. 
Professor Bernard E. Fernow, director of the Cornell uni¬ 
versity department of forestry, in an address before the Cornell 
Lazy club said of Arizona horticulture : 
“At Tucson agriculture is impossible, except for an experi¬ 
ment station. Yuma is the center of a district having wonder¬ 
ful horticultural possibilities. The river is here thirty feet 
below the surrounding land and water is pumped from it to a 
height of 160 feet to supply the “mesas ” sloping up from the 
river banks, citrus fruits, particularly lemons; grapes, peaches 
—everything seems to thrive in this remarkable soil. To illus¬ 
trate : Three years ago, two men took a quarter section, got 
trusted for their stock and turned to with a will. To-day they 
have paid all debts and have $6,000 in the bank. Their profit 
came mostly from grapes shipped to California four weeks 
earlier than the California vintage and bringing at the rate of 
400 per acre. 
“ The vines grow so rapidly that they cannot be trained to a 
trellis but cumber the ground like so many gigantic weeds. 
Figs and almonds grow wild. Almond trees set thirty feet 
apart touch each other in two years. Alfalfa cuts eight to nine 
tons per acre. Methinks the skeptic now puts on a sarcastic 
grin, but these are facts. It all lies in soil of wonderful fertil¬ 
ity and an exceptional climate.” 
PEACHES IN THE SOUTH. 
A Georgia correspondent of the Rural New Yorker says 
that nurserymen report that they have nearly all sold out of 
peach trees. He thinks this means a large increase in southern 
orchards. The southern crop, this year, glutted the markets, 
and prices ran low. He thinks that, in five years with the in¬ 
creased planting of peaches, there will be a tremendous over¬ 
production of the fruit, almost equaling the overproduction of 
cotton in its disastrous effects. He wants to keep out of the 
glut, if possible, and thinks of planting his orchards to mixed 
fruits. Apples, he thinks, will be a profitable crop, the south¬ 
ern markets hardly ever being supplied. 
jforeion Botes. 
In New South Wales all infested fruit coming from other colonies 
may be seized and destroyed, or returned to the shipper at his own ex¬ 
pense. Fruit growers are generally assisting the government in en¬ 
forcing these laws. 
Orchardists in Tasmania are subject to a fine of from $2.50 to $5 
with costs, if they fail to bandage their trees to keep down the codlin 
moth, or if they fail to gather and destroy any infested fruit. Wormy 
apples sent to market are liable to confiscation and destruction and the 
shippers to prosecution. 
The South Algerian Agricultural Society has created three oases in 
the Oued Rir’ region of the Sahara Desert and is endeavoring to propa¬ 
gate dates, figs, vines, apricots and pomegranates. Asparagus has so 
far proved most successful. If it can be packed properly it may prove 
profitable to ship to Paris, five days distant. 
The sixty leading horticulturists of Great Britain and Ireland who 
were recipients of the Victoria Medal of Honor in Horticulture, insti¬ 
tuted by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 to commemorate the 
sixtieth year of her Majesty’s reign, have now been presented with a 
diploma verifying their title to the use of the now w 7 ell-kno\vn letters 
Y. M. H. 
The Nursery Florists and Fruit Growers Syndicate, Ltd., has been 
formed in England with a share capital of £12,000, for the purpose of 
acquiring the long lease for 30 ^ears from Michaelmas, 1898, of the 
farm known as Edgewarebury Farm which is upwards of 170 acres in 
extent, and contains some of the most productive meadow and pasture 
land near London. It is situate nine miles from London, and comprises 
farmhouse, cottages, and most commodious farm buildings. The rent 
for the first 21 years is at the rate of £2 per acre, and thereafter a trifle 
above that figure. This rent is a very low one, as nurserymen and 
florists within 12 miles of London usually pay between £12 and £15 
per acre for land used for similar purposes. 
