Roses in California [pp. 191-197]

Roses in Galifornia.
Teas, Baron Bonstetten, Prince Camille de
Rohan, Abel Caniere, Fisher Holmes, Fran:ois Michelon. with an outer edge of Paeonaia
and Madame Frangoise Pettit. This number
calls, of course, for a large space, but a selection therefrom will be found valuable for
a smaller one. Special care has been given
to select sorts that bear well our large allowance of sunshine. Many choice varieties
are failures here for no reason but that they
do not. An experienced florist specially recommends Louis Van Houtte and Marie
Baumann as free from this objection; also
General Jacqueminot, and Alfred Colomb.
In the shades of rose color the more permanent ones are Marquis de Castellane and
Rev. J. B. Camm. In the paler shades are
recommended Eugene Verdier, Monsieur
Nornan, and Captain Christy. To be avoided where brilliant sunshine is the rule, are
the Verdier type, save the one given above,
the Giant of Battles, the Lefevres, and the
Duke of Edinburgh family.
A few of the leading florists on this coast
have increased the value of this article by
naming to the writer a few reliable varieties
for their several localities. For the immediate neighborhood of San Francisco, in the
constant blooming varieties, are given Pauline La Bonte, Safrano, Claire Carnot, Isabella Sprunt, Bon Silene, Gloire de Dijon,
Marie Van Houtte; for Hybrids-General
Jacqueminot, Paul Neyron, John Hopper,
Cardinal Patrizzi, Jules Margotten, Madame
Rivers, Boule de Niege; for Noisettes-Reve
d'Or, or Climbing Safrano, Reine Marie
Henriette. Gold of Ophir, Aimee Vibert,
La Marque, Climbing Devoniensis, Marechal
Niel, Mrs. Heyman, Microphylla; for Bourbons, Souvenir de Malmaison, Paelona, Hermosa, Madame Bosanquet. The following
remedies for insects affecting the rose in
this locality are kindly added: "For green
fly in the spring, syringe with whale-oil soap
and tobacco water; for red spider, syringe
under leaves and dust with sulphur." Roses
grown out of doors and under the best conditions, however, give comparatively little
trouble in this direction. Perhaps the most
troublesome enemy is an insect that stings
the outer leaves of opening buds, for which
no remedy is given, as it would have to be
like the famous recipe for cooking a hare"First catch your" bug, then kill it. Scale
sometimes annoys old plants; for this, whaleoil soap is a remedy-but probably a better
one is a new plant.
Another enthusiastic florist gives a list for
interior localities: For Teas-Bella, Catherine Mermet, Devoniensis, Elise Sauvage, Isabella Sprunt, Marie Van Houtte, Madame
Lombard, Madame Falcot, Niphetos, Perle
des Jardins, Safrano, La Sylphide; for Hybrid
Perpetuals Alfred Colomb, Baroness Rothschild, Gen. Jacqueminot, Jules Chretien, Poeonia, Earl of Pembroke, Heinrich Schultheis,
Madame Vidot, Merveille de Lyons; climbers - Reine Marie Henriette, La Marque,
Marechal Niel; Noisettes-XW. A. Richardson, Ophire, Madame Caroline Kuster; Bourbons-Appoline, Queen of Bedders, Souvenir
de Malmaison; for winter bloomers-W. F.
Bennett, Sunset, Madame de Watteville,
Southern Belle, Bon Silene.
The following list, irrespective of individual locality, will be found to contain valuable sorts of constant bloomers, all carefully
tested, largely of the Tea, Noisette and Bourbon varieties, and particularly adapted to
this Coast. Very few "novelties" will be
found, as they await the decision of the
court of California florists, and at present are
held as "not proven": Madame Welche,
Etoile de Lyon, Madame de Watteville,
L'Elegante, Antoine Mermet, Sunset, Red
Souvenir de Malmaison, La France, Cornelia
Cook, Bella, Shirley-Hibbard, Catherine Mermet, Comtesse Riza du Parc, ILa Princess
Vera, Comtesse de la Barthe, Devoniensis,
Gloire de Dijon, Letty Coles, Madame
Bravy, Madame Falcot, Md'lle Rachel, Marie
Van Houtte, Madame Lambard, Niphetos,
Safrano, Perle des Jardins, Marie Sisley, Sombrieul, Elise Sauvage, La Jonquille, Jaune
d'Or, Pauline La Bonte, Arch Duke Charles,
Agrippina, Madame Bosanquet, Marie Guillott, Madame de Vatrey, Madame Villermoz,
Rubens, Homer, Souvenir de Malmaison,
Appoline, Celine Forester, Comtesse de
Nadaillac, La Sylphide, Chromatella, W. F.
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