. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. EOSE ROSE 1571 ioiiml amony: a nuuili-ftl varirticx. and this is ] larly the case in places visited by heavy frost rette i-fmainiiii; uiij^eathed. while all othei's ar or less hlasted. The great Kose of the eastern States, American Beanty, is almost a complete failure here and is imt ^_^ worth growing except in


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. EOSE ROSE 1571 ioiiml amony: a nuuili-ftl varirticx. and this is ] larly the case in places visited by heavy frost rette i-fmainiiii; uiij^eathed. while all othei's ar or less hlasted. The great Kose of the eastern States, American Beanty, is almost a complete failure here and is imt ^_^ worth growing except in a very /^' ''- few. well-favored gardens, and even there it is far from buing perfect. Many Koses, too, are of little value here unless b u d d e d *>r grafted. Of this class Mareehal Kiel is the most striking example. Instances may be found where this Rose has thrived unusually on its own roots, bat sueh eases are marked exeep>tiinis. Some few pi-o pie maintain that all Koses are best on their own roots, but opinions are easily refuted by eon sailing any of our veteran rosariaus. The lunlersigned does not advi-^e the purchase of any such stock, no matter how much is claimed for it, or how widely advertised it may be. The best Roses he has ever seen were root- grafted, but of course this procedure is too expensive for the general unrseryman. and the bulk of our local "irticu- , Lau- more /nited winter and spring leading Rose in C; its own roots, in a beconiiu'^ a thinLC wliolly (Usearded. liiu-en "f the fanr our Rose gardens thracnose), which Kose. but seems ti Thus far no ear" la Fram-e for many years was the >rnia ami grew well, budded or on st any locality, but is now rapidly the past, though it can never be it is still, in a few --aniens, tlie Irs in\"oluntary retirenn-nt from due entirtly to a "die tiaek " (an- ects many other plants than the .ve a liking fur La France. been t'lund. 2184. Full-blown flower of Madame Georges


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