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dry bottom ; in sucli a situation, after being well- 

 establislied, they will make shoots twenty feet 

 long in one season. 



ROSA RUBIFOLIA. 



THE PRAIRIE ROSE. 



This native is destined to convey to every hall, 

 cottage, and wigwam of the Union, the Eose, the 

 acknowledged qneen of flowers. Its constitution 

 is such that it will bear without injury the icy 

 breezes of the St. Lawrence, or the melting vapors 

 of the Mississippi. It was in 1837 that Vv^e first 

 saw a double variety of this rose, although such 

 as has been cultivated in Ohio and Kentucky for 

 many years. The flowers are produced in large 

 clusters of various shades of color, from blush to 

 deep rose, blooming with us from the end of June 

 to the end of July, being a period of the year 

 when there are few others in a flowering state, 

 thereby filling up a space between the first and 

 second blooming of the Xoisette, Tea, and Bour- 

 bon families. The foliage is rough, large, and 

 generally of a dark green ; the wood is strong and 

 flexible, and for rapidity of growth has no equal. 



