. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6 The American Florist. 553. RAILROAD GARDENING.—No. 4. At Trenton Junction on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad. succeeding year brings before you new candidates for your favor. They rise, they shine, they disappear. Sweet is the child of one's own raising! Each thinks his will succeed, and yet when brought before the judgment of the buy- er, they are doomed to live only in the memory of the originator. And Ameri- can Beauty reigns, still as ever, in plant or woman, queen of all. To go over the long list o
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo6 The American Florist. 553. RAILROAD GARDENING.—No. 4. At Trenton Junction on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad. succeeding year brings before you new candidates for your favor. They rise, they shine, they disappear. Sweet is the child of one's own raising! Each thinks his will succeed, and yet when brought before the judgment of the buy- er, they are doomed to live only in the memory of the originator. And Ameri- can Beauty reigns, still as ever, in plant or woman, queen of all. To go over the long list of roses that from time to time has been added to by candidates for popular favor would seem useless, since, once condemned there is little hope for resurrection, and they stand only as monuments to the immense, if fruitless, labor of careful, painstaking workers. Here and there one remains, for a brief period, a seem- ing success, supplanted by some new candidate, perhaps better, far more probably not so good as the old; still there remains the list of but ten or a dozen, the standbys, the reliance of grower and salesman. That American Beauty has so long been a favorite is not to be wondered at, for although not a truly beautiful rose (at least in some eyes) never as yet has one been pro- duced with the vigor of growth and luxuriance of this rose, and when to these is added its fine fragrance, it is not surprising that it has a hold on the popular heart only to be broken by a more wonderful rose yet to be produced. Whether a hybrid or a hybrid tea, found by accident or purpose, the fact remains that it was the first of the hybrid class that proved to be ever blooming under glass; may we not learn from this acci- dent that there may be others among the hybrid perpetuals which under skillful treatment could be induced to give us as freely of their bloom and of their brilliant coloring? Bride and Brides- maid, offspring of good old Catherine Mermet, must remain long the leaders
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