Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-05-20

There is no region on earth where
roses grow in such abundance, variety,
beauty and sweetness as they do in the
New Orleans country. Mississippi
gentleman to whom we haye often been
indebted for information on various sub
jects, states that there is growing and
in bloom at his home a Lamarque rose
vine eighty feet long. The stem is eight
inches through in the thickest part. IL
was planted seventeen or eighteen years
ago. 1t is twined around a veranda and
its gorgeous clusters OF cream-tinted
roses are splendid to behold. At New
Orleans the Marechal Neil roses cause
the nOrtherners to stare in speechless
wonder. We have seen some of those
vines that must have been fifty feet long,
and although we have seen them that
long in the north thew were scraggy
and lean looking and in florists green
houses. At New Orleans they run wild
and revel like a midsummer nights
dream. The blossoms grow i'm gorgeous
clusters of half dozen or more, and
the flowers are so large that they would
more than cover the top of a large-sized
cOffee-cup. A single one OF the pale gold
beauties will fill room with perfume.
They are as plenty down here as the
white top is in the northern meadows.
And they sell for a 81 bud up north.
In some of the private citizens yards
in New Orleans there are many as hun
dred different kinds of roses all in bloom
at once. They do not require protection
from cold at any time. They all stand
out of doors in the open ground, ana
many varieties bloom more or less all
the winter through. The rose is a ia
vorite flower at New Orleans. At the
Jockey Club races we saw dozens of
handsomely dressed ladies with eXqui-
site punches of rosesbuds at their belts
and elsewhere in their dresses the
sweet, lovely flower that nature made,
none of your ab0minable artificial
things.
The rose the French inhabitants of
New Orleans are fOndest of for decOra-
ton is called the gold of Ophir."
Northern florists have it, but is not com
mon. The bud is especially priced for
its beauty. 1t is smallish rose, of a
verv pale pink, shading on toward the
heart in deep, gold color. Faint streaks
of crimson touch the outer petals. 1t is
one of the lOvelest roses ever saw
NeW Orleans Commercial.
why Some Farmers DO Not Succeed.
The Southern Farmers Monthly gives
the following reasons why some farmers
do not succeed:
They are not active and indus rious.
They are slOthful in everything.
They do not keep up with improve
ments.
They are welded to old methods.
They give no attention to details.
They think small things not import
ant.
They take no pleasure in their work.
They regard labor as misfortune.
They weigh and measure stingily.
They are wasteful and imprOvident.
They let their gates sag and fall down.
They let their fowls r0Ost in the trees.
They have no shelter for stock.
1 They do not curry their horses.
They leave their plows in the field.
They hang the harness in the dust.
They put off greasing the wagon.
-fhey starve the calf and milk the cow.
They don't know the best is the cheap
est.
They have no method or system.
They see no good in new thing.
They never use paint Oh the farm.
They prop the barn door with rail.
They milk the cows late in the day.
They have no time to do things we'll.
They do not read the newspapers and
books.