Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-29

s'WheHe do ths new roses come from
 Who discovers or makes them ? If they are
 made, how are they made? Does it pay to
 make them? What is the reason that of late
 years roses generally seem to be getting
 larger than they used to be ?"
 These and several other related questions were asked by San reporter of George Will son, an acknowledged authority on roses. tNew roses," he replied, ''come from 1 England and France mainly, although some are produced in other European countries, and few, very few, may claim to be Ameri can. When you see rose that you have not been accustomed to seeing 1t IS by no meaus safe. however, to assume that 1t is an alto eether new one. It may be simply one that has disappeared from public visw for a num- Der of years and during that time has been kept in existence by some individual grower l who has had particular liking for it. Look at the Bon Silene and the Niphetox, for in stance Both are old roses. The first named was once discarded in this country, and went entirely out of popular knowledge for fifteen years. When it reappeared 1t came from
 France to Boston, thence to this city, and from here spread everywhere. 1t IS now
 generally popular favoTite. It IS not large,
 but it's buds are perfectly formed, and 1t has
 charming tint. The long, white, beautiful
 buds of the Niphetos were grown here forty
 years ago, but, through some chance, mo-
 body seems to know exactly how, the variety
 became entirely lost, and twenty years elapsed
 before it reappeared. When it did reappear
 it WAS introduced into the trade in France by
 a man named Granger. Where he got it is
 mystery, He called 1t by it's original name,
 but claimed that it was an entirely new rose.
 Old growers, however, knew 1t was not new.
 It is universally admired; and now that we have learned far more than we used to know about the cultivation of this sort of roses,
 gardeners find it profitable variety. It re- deal nf heat All th9 time and 1t is difficult to bring 1t into fine bloom unless 1t Is humored in every way. Nice produces finer Niphetos buds than are grown anywhere else. and has almost a monopoly of the sup. ply for Paris, where they are popular.
 ssBut, you ask me how Few roses are made. They are grown from the seed. Patient men with mildly speculative bent of mind, in France and Germany, give their whole minds te it, and their work begins even before the formstion of the seed. To explain The large new roses-ahouE which you, as I un- derstand particularly wish to know-are technically known as hybrid perpetuals, and are crosses between, or descendants from, the hardy June rose and certain varieties of the remontant roses. The remontants are those commonly and incorrectly known as monthly roses. They are not monthly, any more than their children are perpetual. Their French name signifies remountlng, or continuing to ascend, and is given to them from their habit of sending up new shoots and putting forth new bloom almost contin- uously through great part of the year, without any definitely prescribed towering season. The flower of one of those roses, a choice one. ripe, fully open and perfectly de- veloped, is used to impregnate another rose, also as perfect as can be selected of the hardier variety, and the seed from the im- pregnated flower is carefully saved and, in due time, sewn. Acres upon acres the grow CT fills with the experimental plants that