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PREPARING TO POLLINATE. 



At the right an unopened rosebud is shown. Roses must be polHnated at this stage; if they are 

 allowed to open before being worked, the bees are likely to interfere. The center shows 

 the bud with sepals and petals removed, disclosing the stamens or bearers of pollen, sur- 

 rounding the ovary. At the left, the ovary alone is shown, the stamens having been 

 removed with a small pair of forceps or scissors. The bud at the left is ready to be pol- 

 linated, by the application to its sticky top of stamens cut from some other rose. (Fig. 13.) 



garding the field of selection of seedling 

 variations, and confining himself to 

 varieties which he had bought in the 

 open market — some of them little 

 known, such as Prince de Bulgarie, and 

 others long since used by everyone, 

 some of them for a long time past, such 

 as Bastide rose — M. Dhtimez was able, 

 by a very sure selection, a judicious choice 

 of fertilizers and, especially, of method 

 of operation, to get such remarkable 

 results that they would have been 

 declared impossible: the size of the 

 flowers, the absolute perfection of form 

 and color of Prince de Bulgarie, Mar- 

 quise de Mores, Agathe Nabonnand, 

 Agathos and others, won as soon as they 

 appeared not only the rapt astonish- 

 ment of the public, but the highly- 

 valued admiration of experts." 



Here, then, is a grower who by a very 

 sure selection and by other artifices of 

 culture, was able to present well-known 

 roses — and also the variety Prince de 

 Bulgarie, less known — which called 

 forth the rapt astonishment of the 

 public and the admiration of experts. 



Perhaps it will be said that the 

 manuring and the cultural methods 

 played a greater part than selection in 

 M. Dhumez' success. Furthermore, 

 one may say that his success is doubtless 

 only momentary, incapable of repro- 

 duction by grafting, budding or mar- 

 cottage. All that is possible, but the 

 contrary is also possible. This is the 

 reason : 



Every rose grower knows that the 

 varieties called Climbing Roses by the 

 English are varieties whose mothers 



