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the efforts which are being made in this line. 
To obtain a variety which shall ina large 
degree combine the hardiness of La Reine 
or Jacqueminot, with the fragrance and free- 
blooming qualities of Madame Bravy or Bon 
Siléne, is surely worth striving for. 
This leads us to a consideration of the roses 
of the future, what they may be, what they 
should be. Roses of the past have been the 
product of nature, unaided by the hand of 
man. Roses of the present also chiefly come 
from sowing the seeds of varieties which 
have not been crossed, except as the crossing 
has been a matter of chance by natural 
agencies. In some instances efforts at arti- 
ficial hybridization have been recorded that 
have given successful results. Roses of the 
future may and should come principally as 
the result of artificial fecundation and hy- 
bridization. A long essay would be required 
to treat this subject and do it justice in a 
magazine article. I can only touch on some 
of the more salient points. Laffay, who 
raised most of the Hybrid Remontants of 
value previous to 1850, is understood to have 
produced many of them by crossing artifi- 
cially varieties of the Bourbon roses with the 
old crimson Rose du Roi. Vibert, Hardy, 
and some other of the French rosarians are 
