Lovers of the rose are fully aware that for fragrance, beauty of color, neatness of bud, free flowering and forcing qualities, the old Bon Silene remains at the head of the many varieties of the Tea rose; but for out-door planting it never has amounted to anything worth mentioning, simply from the fact that a few minutes of sun heat would develop and expand its beautiful buds into flimsy and worthless flowers, resembling the wild rose found on our hills and roadsides; but with all this great defect we never could entertain for a moment the idea of announcing it as worthless, because its good qualities overcome its one bad quality.

At last we are blessed with a great improvement in the shape of a very double Bon Silene, originated by a sport from the old Bon Silene over a year ago in the greenhouse establishment of E. Hippard, in the city of Youngstown, Ohio. He says it retains its quality same as first produced. The flower resembles in shape and thickness of petals, the Sou. de Malmaison; its color and beauty of bud is the same as its parent, with a uniform dark rose color to the center when fully expanded.

Youngstown, O.