Select List Of Monthly Roses

The following is a good list of select Monthly Blooming Bases, recommended by the Rural Messenger:

Souvenir de la Malmaison, Marshal Niel, Gloire de Dijon, Caroline Merneire, Her-mora, Appoline, Purple Crown, Archduke Charles, Queen of Lombardy, Bougere, Mrs. Bosonquet, Pierre de St. Cyr, La Pactole, Imperatrice, Eugenie, Blanche Lafitte, Madame Nerard, Prince Eugene, Isabella Sprunt, Marshal Yillars, La Choice, Leteria, Gloire de Bordeaux, Sir Joseph Paxton, Triomphe de Luxemburg.

Select List Of Roses

The following are recommended by The Ruralist as the best of their class:

Tea Roses

Gloire de Dijon, Sombrieul, Marshal Neil, Madame Brevay, Devon-iensis.

Noisettes

America, Washington, Woodland, Margarette Fellenberg; all are profuse bloomers and hardy.

Remontants, Or Hybrid Perpetual

Victor Verdier, Maurice Bernard in, Count Cavour, Cardinal Patrogii, General Washington, Madame Victor Verdier, Geant des Battailles, Madame Marow, Jules Margotten, Princess Mathilde, Leon Verger. This class is generally exceedingly hardy, many of them being first class bloomers, especially the Giant of Battles.

The Bourbons are undoubtedly the best for small collections, and, with few exceptions, are constant bloomers. Hermosa, Omer Pasha, Souvenir Malmaison, Imperatrice Eugenie, Countess de Brabant, Mine de Bosanquet, George Peabody.

Select List Of Roses. Bix Hybrid Perpetual Or Remontant

1. La Reine,

2. Jules Margottin,

3. Giant of the Battle,

4 Wm. Griffith,

5. Enfant de ML Gourmet,

6. Baron Prevost.

Select List Of Summer, Autumn, And Winter Pears

We are frequently asked, about this time of year, when so many amateurs are thinking of their plantations, to furnish a select list of pear-trees. The following will be a safe guide:

P, indicates the sorts that do best on pear stocks, and Q, those that experience has taught are most suited to the quince or dwarfs.

Select Lists Of Fruits

An Amateur, (Pittsburgh.) The following are very fine new pears, whose excellence has been proved in the northern states. Bonne des Lees - August - melting, very juicy; Beurre Lang-lier - December - melting, vinous flavor; Su-zette de Bavay - Jan. Feb.- sweet, spright-tly; Brandy wine - Sept - sweet, very juicy; Alpha - Oct.- buttery, fine. Of the standard pears we recommend to you the following for a small collection. viz: Early

Fondante d'Automne, Duchess d'Angou-leme, Doyenne Boussock, Heathcote, Louise Bonne de Jersey. Winter pears - Beurre d'Arembergh, Lawrence, Winter Nelis. For three plums, we would plant Green Gage, Purple Favorite, Imperial Gage; three cherries - May Duke, Black Tartarian, Downer's Late. The Breda is the hardiest apricot of first rate quality.

A Selection Of Hardy Shrubs

As the season will soon be at hand when most sorts of hardy trees and shrubs can be transplanted, we give a selection of twenty-five species and varieties as a guide to such of our readers as may desire to beautify the surroundings of their homes. A few of them are comparatively well known, but most of them are of recent introduction, none of them are coarse-growing or of uncivilized appearance, and all are hardy as far north as Albany, at least.

After planting them a mulching two or three inches thick of salt hay or long stable litter should be spread over the soil for two or three feet around each plant, according to its size, and allowed to remain the succeeding summer.