. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 155. PRmROSt OKWt. aid in keeping up the health and vigor of standard varieties of roses, carna- tions, etc. It was, and perhaps is yet, a custom among English gardeners to exchange cuttings of geraniums, etc. in order to keep their stock from degenerating. Darwin in one of his works, which I un- fortunate!} have not at hand for refer- ence, gives a number of experiments in proof of this method of keeping up and improving the vigor of plants. I have seen cuttings taken from the same pla
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 155. PRmROSt OKWt. aid in keeping up the health and vigor of standard varieties of roses, carna- tions, etc. It was, and perhaps is yet, a custom among English gardeners to exchange cuttings of geraniums, etc. in order to keep their stock from degenerating. Darwin in one of his works, which I un- fortunate!} have not at hand for refer- ence, gives a number of experiments in proof of this method of keeping up and improving the vigor of plants. I have seen cuttings taken from the same plants, one lot by the owner and another liy a florist from a dili'erent local- ity, and those taken to the different locality were vigorous and healthy to a remarkable degree, while those grown by the owner were weak, an^l before the season was over two thirds were dead. As both growers used the same methods it certainly looks as though the change in locality was the cause. This matter is worth observation and consideration. Lancaster, Pa. A. M. Herr. French Roses. I >n page 130 you quote from the Lon- don Garden that they copsider the new rose Madame Andre Duron identical with the old Bourbon variety Sir Joseph Pax ton. I think there must be some mistake in this somewhere, as I have this variety received from two different sources in Europe. Both are true to name I feel certain, but they are certainly not iden- tical with Sir Joseph Pax ton and while I do not consider they are identical with the old Appoliue, yet they very much more resemble that variety than the first named. It appears to be a free blooming variety judging from the plants 1 have had growing here some months, and prol)ably it will prove of value on further trial, but it certainly, in my estimation, does not come up to anything like what it was represented to be to me. One party wrote me from the other side that it would rival our American Beauty. Well, I do not know in what way it is to do it, for certainly i
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