THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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stock for plum. St. Julien is the plum stock most generally 
employed there. The Mahalebs are practically all for Ameri¬ 
can trade; also the Manetti, which is not liked in Europe as 
a rose stock. Rosa canina, the Dog Briar, is the Rose stock 
grown mostly for European use. 
ROSES 
A great many roses of named varieties, are grown at 
Angers and Orleans, but they are mostly grafted plants, sold 
at one year old, and are rather small to suit American trade. 
Then, too, many of the varieties are sorts not adapted to our 
climate. It is surprising how certain varieties of roses will 
differ in habit in different localities. In America, at least 
in the eastern States, Soliel d’Or is of such feeble growth 
that we have had to give up attempting to grow it, although 
we experimented with it on several different stocks. In 
France, I saw plants of Soliel d’Or which had made several 
very strong canes, of 3 feet or more in height in one season 
from bud or graft. 
While speaking of Roses, I want to recommend that 
every American, visiting Paris, who is interested in Roses, 
should see the rose garden at Bagatelle in the Bois de 
Boulogne. For the last two years, there have been exhibi¬ 
tions there of new roses introduced during the year, and I 
believe it is the plan to continue these exhibitions regularly 
each year in the future. Nearly all the leading European 
rosarians and several American ones, send their novelities 
here to the Bagatelle gardens, where they are grown side by 
side for comparison and testing, prizes being awarded at the 
end of the season, to the novelties which have shown them¬ 
selves to be of the greatest merit. In addition to the novel¬ 
ties, exhibited, there is also at the Bagatelle gardens, a very 
fine collection of older varieties, grouped according to the 
various races. Mr. Jules Gravereaux, a wealthy Parisian, 
proprietor of one of the largest department stores there, is a 
most enthusiastic rosarian,and it is he, who has been largely 
instrumental in establishing this annual exhibition of novel¬ 
ties at Bagatelle. He also has a magnificent private collec¬ 
tion of roses at his summer home in l’Hay, just out of Paris. 
I was told by the gardener that he had between 7,000 and 
8,000 varieties in his collection. Permission to visit the 
gardens, can usually be obtained during the early summer, 
by those interested in rose growing, and it is both a rare treat 
and an education in rose culture. My time was so limited 
this trip and it was so late in the summer, that I did not visit 
the “Rosarie de l’Hay” as Mr. Gravereaux’s gardens are 
called, but I spent a very pleasant half-day there last year, 
and would have been glad of several weeks in which to study 
the multitude of varieties cultivated. 
There are two establishments near Paris which have fine 
showings of specimen stock, those of Croux & Son at Chate- 
nay, and Moser & Son, at Versailles. At these places, I saw 
some remarkably well grown stock of Rhododendrons, 
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Laurels, xAucubas, Azaleas, Euonymous, Hollies, Ivies, 
Magnolias, Loniceras, etc., etc. Also a very fine assortm nt 
of coniferous trees in unusually well grown specimens. At 
Croux & Sons’, they also grow fruit trees quite extensively— 
specimen trees, trained in the various special forms that are 
required in Europe. Stock such as I saw at these establish¬ 
ments, requires a long time to produce. Many of the 
specimens had been grown in the Nursery for from 
7 to 15 years, and had during all this, time, received the 
most careful training and cultivation as well as frequent 
transplanting. 
THE NICKERSON CUP 
Awarded Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, New York, by the English Rose Society for 
the Rose Dorothy Perkins 
AST year, W. E. Nickerson of 
Cambridge, Mass., presented 
twelve five-guinea silver cups 
to the English Rose Society 
to be awarded one to each 
of the raisers of the best twelve roses, 
especially suitable for general cultivation 
for different garden purposes. The 
committee of the National Rose Society 
distributed ballots to the leading rosa¬ 
rians in England and'elsewhere. Every 
person receiving a ballot was requested 
to underline in each of the twelve divi¬ 
sions, into which the competition had 
been arranged, the variety that he con- 
The Nickerson Cup Awarded Jackson & Perkins 
Company for Rose Dorothy Perkins. 
had received more votes in their classes 
than had Dorothy Perkins in its class. 
Crimson Rambler received less than half 
as many votes. Dorothy Perkins is the 
only rose of American origin that received 
the distinction of a Nickerson Cup at the 
hands of the English Rose Society. The 
accompanying cut shows the cup. 
Those acquainted with the Jackson 
and Perkins Company and their constant 
effort and care in regard to their stock 
and varieties know that the honor that 
has come to the firm is well earned. 
We are sure that though all earnest 
nurserymen will envy them their 
sidered as best complying with the conditions laid down, triumph, they extend them heartiest congratulations for the 
When the votes were counted it was found that only two honor that has come to the firm and to America, 
varieties, Mme. Alfred Carriere and Frau Karl Druschki j. s. g. 
