. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Ai Philadelphia. Papa ("lontier is doing well. In many cases it has supplanted Bon Silene. Atiierican Heauty is extensively grown. In Europe they may rant and rave about its proper name and origin, but we won't. Itself and name are here to stay. Madame Cusin was not very popular last year, but it is in demand this season. Madame Gabriel is a great favor- ite and much grown, but in the mean- time as dormant as a Jacqueminot. Fresh cow manure as a top dressing to roses on benches is not useil as much as
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Ai Philadelphia. Papa ("lontier is doing well. In many cases it has supplanted Bon Silene. Atiierican Heauty is extensively grown. In Europe they may rant and rave about its proper name and origin, but we won't. Itself and name are here to stay. Madame Cusin was not very popular last year, but it is in demand this season. Madame Gabriel is a great favor- ite and much grown, but in the mean- time as dormant as a Jacqueminot. Fresh cow manure as a top dressing to roses on benches is not useil as much as in Jersey. Here the manure from the stockyards, and which is said to contain a good deal of sheep manure, is used. Mr. Lonsdale's new greenhouses, built expressly for roses on benches, are wide, span-roofed structures, 250 feet long. The inside arrangement is similar to what we usually find in hip-roofed rose houses, but the part next the wall at the north side is used as a smilax bed, the smilax being planted in a bed on the ground. Puritan rose has its friends and foes. Hut the general opinion seems to be that it will come better after New Year's. .'\t this time of year we often find it badly affected with mildew and spot, and its blossoms opening imperfectly. The fra- grance is delicious. We don't yet know- how best to treat it; possibly we will have to grow it in a house by itself Can't grow Cooks as we used to. While many roses do well the first year and fail the next season, Niphetos will live and thrive an<l bear capital flowers for many years if worked on La Marque. We cannot do without Perle, but .some- times its flowers come small. Sunset is indispensab'e. It is a good rose and dealers want it, and they often like to get the Perles and Sunsets mixed to- gether. Bennett is a good cropper and keeps healthy. We can't get along with- out Merniet Bride is a capital white rose ; wish its flowers had a stiffer stem. W. F. The Nlarechal Niel. Will some one describe, throu
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