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beautiful and most fragrant and most prolific of 

 roses, if at the same time the plant that exhibited 

 these qualities was susceptible to mildew. In- 

 deed, thousands of otherwise promising roses 

 have been destroyed for the simple reason that 

 they were subject to mildew. 



I have obtained scores of climbing roses that 

 were worthy to compete with the Crimson Ram- 

 bler or the Philadelphia Rambler and other 

 standard varieties, yet which have not been 

 allowed to live because of their susceptibility to 

 disease. 



But the reward of this unflinching appli- 

 cation of a principle has resulted in various 

 types of roses that are quite generally mildew- 

 proof. 



'Among the ramblers just referred to, for 

 example, by sedulous application of the prin- 

 ciples of selection, preserving only those plants 

 that showed themselves to have the quality of 

 inherent resistance to the fungus, I have remain- 

 ing, after thousands of their fellows have fallen 

 by the wayside, a few rambler roses of wholly 

 new types, which are immune to disease. This 

 selection is not as difficult as might be supposed, 

 because a rose that is intensely susceptible is gen- 

 erally attacked during the first one or two years 

 of its existence. 



