THE RAMBLER ROSES. 



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with the exception that the dahlia roots will 

 keep well in a slightly lower temperature. 

 Packing the roots in dry sand in a cool, dry 

 cellar is probably the best method of winter- 

 ing dahlia roots. The sand will prevent the 

 tubers from becoming too dry, as this latter 



condition is almost as dangerous to dahlia 

 roots in winter as an excess of heat and 

 moisture. Dry the dahlia roots fairly well 

 before stowing them away finally for the 

 winter. 



THE EAMBLEE EOSES 



T. H. RACE, MITCHELL 



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A WIRE FENCE COVERED WITH CRIMSON RAMBLER ROSES 

 AT MR. AMBROSE PETTIT's 



Fig, 2394. 



READERS of The Horticulturist were 

 very much interested in the descrip- 

 tion of the Crimson Rambler rose hedge in 

 last month's issue. The sight described on 

 the farm of Mr. Ambrose Pettit must have 

 been a very beautiful one. But let me add 

 that handsome as the Crimson Rambler is 

 the Pink Rambler is not to be despised or 

 overlooked. 



I had a small cluster of Pink Ramblers on 

 my grounds this season that was very much 

 admired and attracted quite as much atten- 

 tion as the crimsons. The pink blooms 

 about two weeks earlier than the crimson, 



and its individual blooms are not so double 

 or heavy, but its clusters are more numer- 

 ous, and when fully out the effect is very 

 fine. I intend to plant it in a hedge, in al- 

 ternate order with the crimson, three feet 

 apart, and intermingle the shoots in such a 

 way as to have a continuous hedge of both, 

 or each in its blooming season. By that 

 plan I hope to double the length of the sea- 

 son in which my hedge will be in bloom, 

 first in pink then in crimson. And for real 

 beauty I would not say that the last stage 

 would be prettier than the first. 



