THE YELLOW RAMBLER ROSE. 



with once, failure comes hundreds of 

 times. The hybridizing has to be done 

 when both the pollen of the one flower 

 and the stigma or fertilizing surface of 

 the other are in just the right stage, or 

 else no cross will be effected ; insects 

 or the wind may spoil the work by 

 introducing the pollen ; seed may not 

 be formed, or if formed at all, may not 

 germinate, or if germinated may not 

 have combined the qualities desired, so 

 many more failures than successes must 

 be expected. 



Mr Lambert has tested the Yellow 

 Rambler for eight years, which shows a 

 very commendable caution upon his 

 part about distributing a new variety. 

 If all originators would but follow this 

 example, and carefully test the value of 

 their new things, the number of doubt- 

 fully meritorious novelities that are year- 

 ly foisted upon the public would be 

 greatly diminished. 



The accompanying cut of the Star 

 strawberry comes from Iv VV. Reid, 

 Bridgeport, Ohio., who claims for the 

 plant vigor, productiveness, and great 

 power to resist the drouth, and for the 

 fruit great size and high (]uality. 



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It is interesting to note that there is 

 a very strong probability of blood rela- 

 tionship between the Yellow Rambler 

 and a rose that was introduced some 

 three years ago, the Crimson Rambler 

 The Crimson Rambler was first found 

 growing wild in Japan, and from its 

 foliage, growth and manner of blooming 

 is thought to have been produced from 

 the Japanese Polyantha Sarmentosa, 

 which was the seed parent of the Yellow 

 Rambler. If this is the case it would 

 make the Yellow Rambler and the 

 Crimson Rambler first cousins. This 

 supposed relationship is rendered still 

 more probable by their very consider- 

 able similarity in foliage, habit of growth 

 and manner of blooming. The flowers 

 of the Yellow Rambler are borne in 

 immense trusses, like those of the Crim- 

 son Rambler, are very sweetly fragrant, 

 and last a long time without fading. 



Oi.n peach orchards may be made 

 young again by severe cutting back. A 

 good many will hesitate to do what may 

 be safely done in this direction. I once 

 heard a practical and successful peach 

 grower relate his experience in cutting 

 back large trees. The buds were winter- 

 killed, so there was no hope of a crop 

 that year, so in March he cut the trees 

 back to within five or six feet of the 

 j;round, leaving stubs of branches, some 

 of which were nearly two inches in dia- 

 meter. Instead of killing the trees, as 

 his neighbor peach-orchardists prophe- 

 sied it would, they made a magnificenl 

 new growth, and the autumn being fa- 

 vorable, matured a nice lot of fruit buds. 

 The following year more than a bushel 

 per tree of fine fruit was gathered, and 

 the trees instead of being long and strag- 

 gling had taken on heads somewhat like 

 young trees. This severe pruning must 

 be done in March, as soon as the wea- 

 ther becomes warm enough to thaw the 

 frost in the wood. It will not do to do 

 it after trees are in leaf — Green's F. G. 



