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11. The Queen or Souvenir de S.A. Prince.—A sport from Souvenir d’un 
Ami. It is valuable as being about the purest white rose. Sometimes comes 
well, but is rather uncertain. 
12. Madame Camille.—This is a big fine rose, and had it any other colour 
than the dirty pink it possesses, we should value it highly. 
A number of our friends will ask why I have not included certain roses 
in these lists, such as Mrs. James Wilson, White Perle, Madame Caro (synonym 
Etoile de Lyon), Perle de Lyon, Louis Léveque, &c. 
Some of these are so much like better roses that it is not worth while 
multiplying varieties a little their inferior. Madame Caro is very liable to mildew 
and is such an arch deceiver that to grow the lady means to lose your temper. 
It is but seldom the flowers will open, and then they are so good that you are 
tempted to give the jade another chance and are taken in. Perle de Lyon has 
splendid colour, but is much liable to malformation, while Louis Lévéque, 
‘shaved pretty in the bud, like Jeanne Caband, opens generally into a big 
flower, disfigured by being divided into four quarters 2 
For garden decoration I would recommend: Maman Cochet, Climbing 
Niphetos, Souvenir de Thérése Levet, Mdlle. Francesca Kruger, White Maman 
Cochet, Marie van Houtte, Perle des Jardins (the climbing variety for pre- 
ference if room enough), Madame Hippolyte Jamain, from the best of show 
varieties ; and add the following :—Hdouard Littaye, Wm. Allen Richardson, 
Sovenir de Rosieriste Rambeaux, Leo XIII., Francois Dubreuil. 
For cutting in the budform: Climbing Niphetos, Martha du Bourg, 
Francois Dubreuil, Wm. Allen Richardson, Madame Bonnet Emyard, Homer, 
Souvenir deCatherine Guillot, Comtesse de la Barthe, Souvenir de Thérése Levet, 
Comtesse de Frigneuse, Léonie Osterieth, Professor Ganiviat, the latter, 
however, has a strong tendency to mildew and also to bleach in colour. 
It is a very difficult task to draw up a list of twelve best varieties. I have 
found it especially so with the twelve best for general garden purposes. The 
choice is from such a wide range that I have found it very hard to satisfy 
myself. With the twelve for this purpose, I am not altogether satisfied, having 
been compelled to omit standard sorts that have great claim to distinction. In 
the discussion to follow, I hope our rose-growing friends will stand up for their 
fayourites—for those with which they have had most success ; and, between us, 
we may come to some very useful conclusions. 
PRODUCING RAIN BY ELECTRICITY. 
An English journal says that some interesting experiments for the artificial 
roduction of rain by means of electricity have just been carried out in Japan. 
NENG: of electricity directed skyward under a system somewhat similar to that 
upon which wireless telegraphy is based have resulted in atmospheric distur- 
bances of far greater area than any ever artificially produced through the 
medium of detonating explosives in the upper air strata. The probability of 
achieving greater success in rainmaking through the means of electricity than 
by the use of explosives has been urged by scientists for several years. This 
attempt by the Japanese, however, is the first practical effort to prove the truth 
of the theory. It was attended by conspicuous success. Operations were 
commenced at 11 in the evening, but there was no sign of atmospheric change 
until 9 o’clock next morning, when a cluster of clouds was observed over the 
hill on which the experiment was held. At length rain began to fall, followed 
by a second fall at 11 a.m., and afterwards a third, fourth, and fifth, the last 
being about 9°30 in the evening. ‘The area upon which the rain fell extended 
over many miles. 
