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Expert Opinions: The American Rose Annual

Every hybridizer will be interested also in the articles by Dr. White and Dr. Van Fleet in "The American Rose Annual" for 1916; also in the "Stammbuch der Edelrosen," by Dr. G. Kruger. The edition of this work, published in 1906, at Trier, Germany, contains a most complete listing of the hybridized roses in commerce, including parentage, hybridizer, and date of issue. For example, under Mme. Caroline Testout, are given fifty-eight immediate descendants, showing also the name of the other parent in all except nine cases. It would seem to be an invaluable work for anyone who wishes to undertake hybridizing. *"Roses," page 229 (see Bibliography).

FOR WINTER EVENINGS Bibliography Beginning with "The Rose Manual," by Robert Buist, in 1884, there have been issued in America at least eighteen different works, the most noteworthy of which we list below: THE ROSE. By H. B. Ellwanger. 1882. 293 pp. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. This was long the standard rose book.