Morning journal and courier., 1884-05-19

and his cousins to the Germanic museum in l kind of romance that will suit the color of ! the journal for which it is wanted for . few guineas. The stories of the Clan-na-
 Gael holding secret meetings in Pariss with sections A and B, to which they admit re-
 porters pledged under pain of death not to
 bstray them, may safely be dismissed as in- credible.
 Nuremberg was painted by the artist Eisru-
 bsr after a cartoon designed by Professor Wonderer, and represents 8 mighty oak tree, on either side of which, in order to denote the Warlike character of the members of the
 Bismarck family, stands 6 man clad in the ar- mor of the sixteenth century, one of whom shows the striking features of the Iron Chan csllor. These two warriors support the family coat-of-arns, above which, in the top of the oak tree, is the princely escutcheon. On either side are the armorisl bearings of and those of the Bismarck-Bohlen family, together with variety of military emblems
 among them the arms and equipments of the regiment of cnirassiers of which Prince Bismarck is the commander, and those of
 the regiment7of dragoons in which many members of the Bismarck family, including the ohancellor's two sons, have served. The inscription at the foot of the oak reads: Presented by the First Chancellor of the New German Empire and by his agnates, 1883."
 The Massachusetts Horticultural society gives the amateur rose-grower some timely and trustworthy information. It has just published two lists naming the best hardy
 roses as continuous boomers for outdoor
 culture, and the best hardy roses adapted to
 general cultivation, as follows:
 CONTINUOUS BLooa1ERs Alfred Colcomb.
 Annie Wood. Boieldieu, Caroline de Sansal,
 Fisher Holmes, Francois Michelon, Gen.
 Jacqueminot, Marie Baumann. Mime. Victor
 Verdier, Mons. E. Y. Teas. Pierre Noting,
 Rev. J. B. M Camm, Xavier Olibo, Charles Darwin, Countess of Oxford; Dr. Sewell,
 Marguerite de St. AmRnde. President Thiers.
 The last five (beginning with Charles Darwin) are fine, constant bloomars, but liable to mildew
 HARDY ROSES FOR GENERAL CULTIVATION Alfred Colomb, Annie de Dtesbach, Annie Wood, Baron de Bonstetiin, Baroness Roths- child, Charles Lefebvre, Duke of Edinburgh, Etienne Levet. Fisher Holmes, Francois Michelon, Gen. Jacqueminot, John Hopper, Jules Margottln, LaResiere, Marie BaumanR, Marquis de Castellane, Maurice Bernardin, Nme Gabriel Luizet, Mme. Hippolyte JR- main, Mme Victor Verdisr, Mons Bencenne, Mons. E Y Teas, Paul Nsyron. Rev. J. B. N. Cama, Thomas Mills, Louis Van Houtte, Mile. Marie Rsdy, Pierre Noting The last three are difficult and uncertain, but so re- narkably fine that the committee could not refrain from mentioning them.
 The rose needs clean cultivation and a plenty of fertilization, nothing being better, applied in the fall and spaded in in the spring, than good stable manure. The bushes set out in the spring ought not to be allowed to blossom freely, if at all, during the summer; the strength should be confined to the growth of wood and preparation for the next years bloom. Nobody has as yet found Q certain remedy for the rose bug, ex- cept hand picking, which is, practically speaking, out of the question.