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were not procumbent by nature, and 

 that such varieties can be produced 

 almost to order, by taking scions from 

 branches which show a tendency to 

 extend. Such extension can be pro- 

 voked by pruning, manuring, and 

 especially by a shady location. 



PRODUCING BUSH ROSES. 



Bush roses can be produced in the 

 same way that climbing roses are, from 

 bushes of ordinary height. It is only 

 necessary to cut your grafting wood in 

 the neighborhood of the inflorescences. 

 The i^rocedure is well known for the 

 Noisette Aimce Vibert. It is jjcrhaps 

 too well known. In attempting to pro- 

 cure the old, giant type I twice secured 

 the dwarf. 



I remember having seen at a rose 

 exposition some specimens of Noisette 

 William Allen Richardson, cultivated 

 in pots and relatively dwarf of height, 

 well covered with flowers; they were 

 exhibited by M. Patichoud, a horticul- 

 turist at Lyon-Croix-Rousse. Had he 

 ]3racticed selection of grafting wood on 

 the sjjccimens of this remarkable variety 

 obtained from Mme. Veuve Ducher? 

 There seems to be nothing to contradict 

 such a belief. 



It seems probable, too, that many 

 beautiful ]jrocumbent or Sarmentose 

 varieties which have cast a bright light 

 in the firmament of roses and then have 

 disajjpeared from view, have vanished 

 from rose gardens for no other reason 

 than that selection of too rank-growing 

 budwood was ]jracticed. I could name 

 a dozen kinds that one now finds only 

 by accident. 



An amateur, or V)etter still a rose 

 grower who cultivates hundreds of 

 specimens of each variety, could cer- 

 tainly find either branches or whole 

 jjlants presenting characters worthy of 

 being fixed : more abundant flowers, 

 lighter or darker shades of color, better 

 foliage, fewer thorns, etc. How many 

 sports are lost because not noticed ? 



However, they are not all lost: as 

 witnesses. La France, which is grown in 

 four or five difl"erent tints and one pan- 

 ach(;e or striped rose (Angclique Veys- 

 sey); Malmaison, which exists in two 



colors; Baronnc dc Roth.schild has three 

 albinos; Rcine Marie-Henriette was the 

 origin of Madame Driout. And there 

 are many more of the same kind, with- 

 out counting a number of varieties sold 

 as seedling variations, which are really 

 nothing but sports. 



It is especially roses of h\-brid origin 

 which present these dissociations. But 

 there are others more ancient on which 

 an intelligent selection would give good 

 results, and among these are the moss 

 roses, of which the first one known is 

 still the best. 



ROSES FROM SEED. 



Rose Seedlings — Behold the infancy 

 of the art ! It is within reach of the first 

 planter who appears. Our fathers, our 

 uncles, have worked for us. They were 

 expert hybridizers and cross-breeders, 

 and when they did not hybridize, the 

 bees hybridized fcr them. 



Although the method is slightly 

 played out, it still gives good results here 

 and there. It is a lottery. Since the 

 creation of fertile Tea hybrids, many 

 beautiful varieties have been obtained 

 simply by planting seeds of them. When 

 the Hybrids Remontants flourished, it 

 was their seeds that produced the re- 

 markable varieties still cultivated on 

 such a large scale in gardens and espe- 

 cially by commcrical growers. In these 

 days, we had to sow seeds by the thou- 

 sand to produce four or five noteworthy 

 varieties. This is the way many growers 

 used to jjroceed. At the end of the sea- 

 son — the last of October, in the climate 

 of Lyon — they gathered indiscrimi- 

 nately in collections and nurseries all the 

 fruits that the bushes produced, with- 

 out ]jaying the slightest attention to the 

 varieties which j^roduced them. At 

 least, that is the way it was done in the 

 establishment of the late Jean Liabaud, 

 with whom I served m\' ai^prenticcshi]). 

 And that clever horticulturist had ob- 

 tained in that manner beautiful varie- 

 ties which are always in demand even 

 at the jjresent day. The rose fruits thus 

 gathered were ojicned during the long 

 winter e\'enings. the seeds were taken 

 out and stratified in sand, and sowed in 

 Februarv in a bed not tc:)o hot, some- 



