FALL PLANTING OF ROSES. 



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monstrated at the expense of a little personal 

 conceit. 



A dwarf canna (Nellie Bowden) growing 

 close by, looked quite like a small edition of 

 its " lily-flowered " superior. It is the only 

 canna which might properly be called dainty 

 looking, and it is that in leaf and flower, as 

 both are small, trim and slender. The color 



is a little deeper yellow and lacks the clear 

 transparency of petal; the two smallest pe- 

 tals are stained with red much deeper than 

 the faint dots of Austria. This is also a free 

 bloomer out of doors, but has never done 

 anything indoors. The extreme height thus 

 far attained is 38 inches. — Am. Agricul- 

 turist. 



THE CRIMSON RAMBLER ROSE. 



BY T. H. RACE, MITCHELL. 



< 4 T AM sure," says the editor of National 

 A Stockman and Farmer, " that many 

 readers of this paper have this beautiful 

 rose but they do not all have it, as they 

 sometimes drive in to my place to see the 

 Ramblers in bloom. About four years ago 

 I planted a dozen of the Ramblers, and now 

 they make a grand showing on ' the green 

 lawn. What I particularly want to ay 

 about this rose is that once you have it 

 started it will take care of itself, and is in- 

 sect and disease proof, which can be said of 

 very few beautiful flowering plants. We 

 all love beautiful flowers, and if we can 

 have them without too much nursing and 

 petting we want them, and of that class the 

 Crimson Rambler is one of the best." 



Every word of the foregoing is true about 

 the Crimson Rambler. But even this thingr 

 thing of beauty is likely to have a popular 

 rival in the more delicate Dorothy Perkins. 

 I have two of the latter blooming this year ; 

 one-year-old plants planted a year ago, and 

 they are pleasing me very much. The 

 stock is more slender in its growth than that 

 of the crimsorL- and the foliage is somewhat 

 finer and brighter green. The individual 

 bloom, a soft pink in color, is no larger than 

 the crimson, but it is finer and fuller, and 

 the clusters are quite as heavy. Being 

 slender in growth, it is easily laid down, and 

 mine came through the winter with no cov- 

 ering except the snov^. 



FALL PLANTING OF ROSES. 



T. H. RACE, MITCHELL. 



1AM asked if I would recommend plant- 

 ing Rambler roses in the fall, or any 

 other class of roses. I decidedly prefer fall 

 planting for all out-door roses. Last fall I 

 planted a number of Ramblers, crimson and 

 pink, two-year-old bushes, and left shoots 

 two feet long. This year they are covered 



with a mass of bloom, as if they had not 

 been moved. This spring I planted a row 

 of twenty crimsons in very strong ground. 

 They were strong two-year-old plants, and 

 are doing well, bift not blooming like those 

 planted in the fall. My experience is the 

 same with all other kinds of roses. 



