Souvenir De Victor Hugo Rose

A colored plate appears in the October number of Journal des Roses. Unlike most tea roses, it seems to bloom in clusters. It is a yellow rose, but with such deep rosy edges as to appear like a red rose at the first blush. It was raised by M. Bonnaire, of Lyons, in 1884, from seed of Comtesse de Labarthe, that had been fertilized by the old Regulus.

Grass For Shade Under Trees

"M. B.," Kensington, Phila.: There are a number of grasses that will do fairly well under trees, where the ordinary lawn grasses fail, if the ground be dry, but not very dry. The English sheep grass, Festuca ovina is one of these, and the flat stemmed blue grass, Poa compressa, is also good. We have no grass seed catalogue at hand, but these kinds can no doubt be had of first-class seedsmen.

Culture Of Aquatics

The efforts of Mr. E. D. Sturtevant, of Bordentown, N. J., to make popular the culture of water plants, has met with considerable success, if we may judge by pretty tanks, occasionally seen. One of the most attractive features of Fairmount Park last year, was the water plants. Whoever has water may have these pretty things, and tubs sunk in the ground will do for those who have no natural ponds.

Lopezia Miniata For Cut Flowers

The Germans make as much use of this lovely rose-colored flower, as we do of Stevia or Alyssum, for winter cut flower work. The smallest bunch of flowers in that country is considered incomplete without a few sprigs of Lopezia.

William Francis Bennett Rose

Some small plants flowered in France last year, and the growers are inclined to go into ecstasies over it.

Names Of Night Blooming Cactuses

"J. H. S." New Haven, Conn., notes: "In number for October, page 299, 'W. P.' Oswego, N. Y., seems to have mistaken Cereus nycticaulis for C. grandi-florus, and what he calls C. latifrons is without doubt Phyllocactus Hookerii".

Cherry, Molmanne Dike

The Revue Horti-cole considers this a valuable late cherry, ripening after Belle de Choisey. In France they have had the fruit till the 15th of September.

The Jessica Grape

This Canadian seedling was noted in our columns last year, and is said to have given great satisfaction in Canada last year.

American Grape In Europe

The plantations of American Phylloxera-proof grapes in Europe are getting to be enormous. We learn by an Italian journal that at Sassara, in Italy, 20,000 were set out in one spot.

The Industry Gooseberry

In the old world where time is of less consequence than here, this goes by the name of Wyndham's Industry, and some pomologists are inclined to bastinado Americans for changing the name to disguise its English origin. Not at all, but we cannot tolerate a long name.