THE BEST OCTOBER ROSE ?
The chief glory of this October in our gardens has been the late blooming of the roses. The flowers are as fine now as they ever were, and not much less numerous. Which is the best of the autumn flowerers ? With me K. of K., with a neighbour Los Angeles, have beaten all others among bedding roses ; and among the more rampagious—some would say the more vulgar—nothing has proved so persistent as Zephyrine Drouin. The old monthly rose has been as floriferous--and to my eyes as lovely—as those splendid newer polyanthus rotes, now a large family, whose surname is Poulsen, though both Kirsten and Elsie Poulsen have been blossoming magnificently, and each has its votaries. Both area great addition to the garden, having more vigour and persistence than most of their predecessors in the class, always excepting Orleans. Never within memory have October gardens been so bright. The proper autumn flowers, such as the asters, dahlias and chrys- anthemums, are rivalled by survivors from June; among them even lupines, and of course delphiniums. Some of the annuals, especially sweet peas, are still exuberant. Our St. Luke's summer is summer indeed.
W. BEACU TnomA s.
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