Rose Madame Trifle

My plant of Madame Trifle has the appearance of being a well-favored seedling of that "perfection of a rose," Gloire de Dijon. It blooms very constantly - well, perhaps more regularly than Gloire de Dijon itself. The blossoms are of a far more delicate yellow-tinted white - that is, at a distance they appear whiter, and are consequently more showy, a delicate - beautifully delicate - creamy yellow being just discernible upon closer inspection. The half-opened buds are very beautiful. The full-blown blossoms are globular in shape, seldom expanding fully to expose the center.- The Florist.

The Rose Radish

The editor of the Rural New Yorker, in copying our article on this Radish, remarks that our engraving is not a good one, as he has grown it; and in this he is no doubt right for we have seen it very much as he figures it, grown from seeds purchased at the stores, and we think it has degenerated. Some of our frontispieces have been open to criticism, but this is not true of our portrait of the Rose Radish; we assure our Rural friend that this is a very accurate and fair representation of the Radish as we grew it from the original seed, except that in the colored edition the color should be brighter. The Rural agrees with us in regard to its excellence.

Rose Ranquets

Cleopatra is said once to have purchased roses for a banquet, on which occasion the floor of the apartment was covered with roses to the depth of a cubit, or 1½ feet. .

Suetonius relates of Nero that he spent upwards of $150,000 at one supper in the purchase of roses.

Rose Seedlings

A Lover of Roses, (Franklin Co., Pa.) To raise roses from seed, you should gather the sends when fully ripe, divest them of the pulp, mix the seeds with sand, and put this sand in a flower-pot or box, covering the surface with something to prevent the mice from devouring the seeds. Then place the pot or box in the cellar, and keep the sand moist. When the spring opens, sow the seeds In a common hot-bed, and when the plants are about an inch high, transplant thorn into a rich, light border, shading them till established. When the seeds are sown in the ordinary way, they frequently lie two, and sometimes three years, before vegetating.

Rose Shrubs

Filius, (Toronto.) Viburnum Opulus-rostunt - the rose colored variety of the common Snow Ball, about which you inquire, we do not remember to have seen. If any of our nurserymen have cultivated it, we will be glad to hear from them. We do not understand your inquiry about cutting apple "stocks" into two or three pieces? Do you mean grafts? If so, every portion of a good young shoot, with three buds, will make a good graft.

Rose, Hybrid Bourbon - "Peerless"

Flowers described as being borne in immense clusters of rich crimson; double, fine form, very fragrant, hardy.

Rose-Colored Halbsia

Some years ago, Mr. Leroy, of Angers, gave notice that he had a Silver-bell tree, Halesia tetraptera, with rose-coloured flowers, which he had propagated very largely. Have any of our readers seen it?