. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. Mr. Budd, who as is wellknown, is associated with the Iowa Agricultural(College, cites as quite positive proof that thisinteresting Rose is not a .lapanese, the fact of itssucceeding well throughout the Northwestern States where Japanese plant would be killedeven in the mildest winter. It is therefore quiteprobable that instead of coming originally fromJapan, it was carried to Japan from colder lati-tudes. Another point that favors some placeother than Japan as the home of this Rose is
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. Mr. Budd, who as is wellknown, is associated with the Iowa Agricultural(College, cites as quite positive proof that thisinteresting Rose is not a .lapanese, the fact of itssucceeding well throughout the Northwestern States where Japanese plant would be killedeven in the mildest winter. It is therefore quiteprobable that instead of coming originally fromJapan, it was carried to Japan from colder lati-tudes. Another point that favors some placeother than Japan as the home of this Rose is thatbut two varieties, the pink and the white, havebeen brought from that country, while consid-erable variety in the manner of growth, as wellas color and size of the flowers exists in theEuroijean sorts. A double variety in Russia,Rosa rugosa fl. pi., averages forty perfect petals various forms of the rocks, stalactites, limestoneetc , are all correctly represented. These min-iature rock-gardens for rooms are so much infavor in Japan, that they may be found in thedwellings even of the poorest JAPANESE GARDENING. A MOUNTAIN SCENE. FIG. 2, to each bloom, and is of dark pink color and fra-grant. It seems to be a marked tendency in theEuropean for the stamens to turn into petals,thus inclining the blossoms to doubleness. Suchhigh authority as Drs. Regal and Maximowichtherefore conclude that the hardiness andvariation of this Rose is proof that CentralAsia and Eastern Europe are its home. In anyevent the many fine qualities, and the hardinessof Rosa rugosa renders it one that can be recom-mended to all American cultivators, even to thatlarge class who constantly deplore that theyhave no luck in Rose culture. Plants of thisvariety can now be procured of all leading Rosegrowers at an ordinary price. Japanese Miniature Gardening. The accom-panying engravings, reduced from GardenersChronicle, represent curious productions ofJapanese gardening art. The stunted Pine, fig. I,s
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