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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
red rose but, from the growers’ viewpoint, a hard one to prepare 
for shipment as it is a rank, sprawling grower with stiff stems. 
His Majesty is the prettiest red rose we have. It has a long 
pointed bud, the petals recurving as the open. It blooms spar¬ 
ingly all summer, its one fault being its slender stems with flow¬ 
er buds coming occasionally on weak necks. Despite this, it is 
well worth having in every list. We like to grow Magna Charta 
(pink) because it makes good tops and good roots and is a splen¬ 
did blooming rose for our customers. It is the most popular 
HP for florists’ forcing also. A better rose for blooming (with 
us) in Anna de Diesbach. It is similar in growing habit to Magna 
Charta but blossoms throughout the summer and fall. While 
we classed Conrad P. Meyer with the Rugosas before, it travels 
with this class and is the best all-around pink in the HPs. Paul 
Neyron is an old and popular sort. Frau Karl Druschki is be¬ 
loved by all for its beautiful snow white buds and blossoms and 
its everblooming quality. 
A recent introduction among hardy roses for universal planting 
is Hugonis, the new yellow introduced from China a few years 
ago. You are familiar with it from the publicity which it has 
received through advertising and articles in the trade papers and 
the American Rose Annual. First to bloom in the spring and 
hardy as an oak it is sure to be in big demand as soon as ade¬ 
quate plantings can be made by nurserymen and the stock pro¬ 
duced in quantity. It is worthy of a place, not only in rose 
gardens but in every shrubbery planting and is excellent for 
hedgework. 
These newer roses should be listed in every catalog. Two 
other varieties should be mentioned at this time and they are 
the Harrison’s Yellow and Persian Yellow, both of which will 
serve a like use and will blossom later than Hugonis. 
Make haste and list these newer roses in every catalog, giving 
them the same eloquent description which made the now stand¬ 
ard sorts popular. It is illogical to expect our customers to buy 
something which we do not advertise and of whose existence 
they are not aware. Get them before the public eye and then 
get busy with your supply. You are wideawake nurserymen. 
Now, there are some roses which one ought not attempt to 
propagate or plant in this climate, varieties which, though pos¬ 
sibly favorites in other sections, are raggedy, unkempt, slow 
growing into scarcely saleable plants during a season’s vigorous 
growing campaign. I refer to such varieties as La France, 
American Beauty. Mine. Caroline Testout (favorite in our North¬ 
western States), Blumenschmidt, Etoile de Lyon and most of 
those which were so popular in the early days. There is one 
newer one also, a veritable culprit, stealing its thunder from 
its stronger, popular brother, Crimson Rambler—I refer to Flow¬ 
er of Fairfield said to be an everblooming Crimson Rambler. It 
should be dropped like virulent poison because of its entirely un¬ 
satisfactory manner of growth and blossoming. It is a slow, low 
growing plant, and is quite likely to lose you customers instead of 
winning them because they are liable to believe that you have 
misled, misinformed and duped them. It most certainly is not 
an everbloomer in the sense that the term is ordinarily accepted. 
After the spring flush of blooming the plants sometimes have 
as many as two or three tiny blossoms on occasionally through 
the summer. Of course, it may do better in the far north. There 
are varieties to replace it and they are the Climbing Orleans and 
Climbing Baby Rambler. They will win the patronage for you. 
With about two thousand varieties of roses listed in America 
you may observe that nurserymen generally are holding down to 
some forty or fifty standard sorts. We do not list many of the 
Teas and Hybrid Teas because they are mostly for the favored 
few who either live in a mild climate or are gifted with means to 
protect their beds or renew the plants each spring. Doubtless 
some meritorious hardy ones have been omitted from this talk 
when they should have gotten favorable mention. 
The larger portion of the people demand hardy roses which 
will increase their blooming capacity from year to year. These 
people have no room for a bed of H Ts from which to cut blooms 
for the house. The hardy roses give them one grand show for 
three weeks to a month or more and they are well pleased. 
The business of growing roses, the hybridization of them and 
the introduction of new varieties has a wonderful field for pro¬ 
gress. Let us to the work. 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OARDENERS 
Tlit' first annual meeting of the Western Pennsylvania 
Branch of the National Association of Gardeners was 
held in the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, October 16, with 
Manus Curran, chairman, presiding. The secretary’s re¬ 
port of receipts and expenditures for the year, ending 
October 16. showed the branch to be in a strong financial 
condition. Chairman Curran thanked the local conven¬ 
tion committees for their whole-hearted support both be¬ 
fore and during the convention in Pittsburg in August. 
Pr esident Barnet, of the National Association, read sev¬ 
eral letters from members who had attended the conven¬ 
tion, which indicated how much they had enjoyed it. 
The branch approved the applications for membership of 
Carlos E. Norton, active, and Walter L. Voss, associate. 
A letter was read from James Wilson, chairman of the 
North Shore of Illinois Branch, requesting an opinion 
from the Western Pennsylvania Branch on Article 111, 
Section 1 of the By-Laws, relative to the suspension of 
members in arrears of dues for more than one year. This 
subject is to be brought up for discussion at the spring 
meeting of the association to be held in Cleveland. The 
branch agreed with Mr. Wilson that there should be some 
system of co-operation between the various branches, so 
that any problems taken up by one may be thrashed out 
by all the branches before the annual convention, and 
the stand of the branches on the problems be learned. 
James Moore, superintendent of West Park, Pittsburgh, 
was elected chairman, and Henry Goodband was re¬ 
elected secretary of the branch. Manus Curran, the re¬ 
tiring chairman, received a rising vote of thanks for the 
able manner in which he has presided over the meetings 
during the year. The next meeting is to be a business 
and social affair in charge of the following committee: 
John Fornoff, chairman; William Thomson, Jr., John 
Barnet, Roderick W. Ross, James Moore. 
The fourth meeting of the North Shore of Illinois 
Branch was held at the home of the secretary on the 
James Simpson estate, Glencoe, 'on October 16, with 
James Wilson, chairman, presiding. Several letters from 
the branches in the different states were read, referring 
to the re-instatement of members under Article III, Sec¬ 
tion 1, of the By-Laws. It was voted to send a delegate 
to the Cleveland meeting in the spring to express the 
views of the branch on this subject. Thomas Blair inter¬ 
ested his employer, Mrs. Belle Kuppenheimer. in the as¬ 
sociation as a sustaining member. Several applicants, 
who have signified their willingness to become members 
by January first are being investigated. 
The Cleveland Branch will hold a meeting at the 
home of its chairman, R. P. Brydon, on the estate of 
Mrs. F. F. Prentiss on the evening of October 29. 
The Nassau Co., L. I. Branch will call a meeting for 
some time during the latter part of November, following 
the fall shows. 
THE PINEAPPLE PEAR 
Tlie Pineapple pear, developed in Southern Georgia, promises 
a great deal for pear production in the South, particularly in the 
Coastal Plains region. The principal trouble with pear growing 
is blight. This disease is such a terrible enemy of the pear that 
it has practically destroyed commercial production in most sec¬ 
tions. Some varieties are more susceptible to it than others. 
The old Kieffer seems to be more resistant than any of the va¬ 
rieties known before the development of the Pinapple variety. 
Every effort has been made to inoculate this pear with blight, 
both artificially and naturally. The Georgia Experiment Station 
says that it may be considered 100 per cent proof against this 
disease. 
Because of being blight-proof, this pear should be very largely 
planted in the South, particularly in the Coastal Plains region. 
It is believed by many that it will do well all over the South, 
