28 ROSES THAT BLOO:\[ IX JUXE. 



I have no doubt tliat in good soil it would reach 

 one hundred feet in a very few years. It is admi- 

 rably adapted for covering rockwork, old build- 

 ings, or any object requiring to be hid ; it also 

 delights in a procumbent position, and can be 

 used for covering naked spaces of rough ground, 

 or even to make a flowery carpet of every shade 

 of color. For the following varieties we are 

 indebted to Mr. Samuel Feast, Nurseryman, Bal- 

 timore, who raised them from seeds of the native 

 Prairie Eose. There is not a rose fancier but will 

 thank him for opening a field for the hybridizer, 

 in which the rose is to be cultivated to admiration, 

 and blooming six months of the year, throughout 

 every State of the Union. These roses will form 

 parents to be impregnated with the more fragrant 

 blooming sorts, such as Bourbon, Tea, Bengal, and 

 JSToisette. We may therefore expect from them 

 a progeny perfectly hardy, and blooming at least 

 three or four times during the season. In general, 

 rose-growdng is confined to latitudes south of 41°, 

 the Chinese varieties, and their hybrids, that bloom 

 constantly, being too tender to bear winter expo- 

 sure north of that line. When we can produce 

 perpetual blooming hybrids from this Rosa Rubi- 

 folia, they will withstand every variety of climate, 



