CULTURE OF THE ROSE. 87 



to the plant in question. It was raised from the same seed 

 and in the same seed-pan as the Single Crimson Moss Rose. 

 As this strange hybrid came from a Moss Rose, accidental- 

 ly fertilized^ we may expect that art will do much more for 



Some of the more hardy kinds of climbing roses, as, for 

 example, the Queen of the Prairies, may be induced to 

 wear borrowed robes, and assume beauties beyond those 

 with which Nature endowed them. At the proper season, 

 they may be budded here and there with some of the 

 most hardy and vigorous of the June and Hybrid Perpet- 

 ual roses. As these varieties bloom earlier than the 

 Prairie roses, the period of bloom of the climber will be 

 greatly protracted by this process, while at the same time 

 it will be made to bear flowers incomparably finer in form 

 and color than its own. It will be necessary, however, in 

 our Northern climate, to protect it by nailing mats over it, 

 since otherwise many of the buds will be winter-killed ; 

 and, as it is expected to yield more than its natural shara 

 of bloom, it should be stimulated with more than the usual 

 manuring, and pruned more closely than the ordinary 

 climbing roses. 



