LITTLE GARDENS 



of the moss-roses, Hermosa and Clothllde Sou- 

 pert; and there are the climbers, Dawson, Car- 

 mine, Pillar, Wichuriana, Seven Sisters, Thalia, 

 Prairie Queen — sturdiest of them — and Mary 

 Washington. 



It may be that some of the old strains do 

 not bear as they did; that they have been urged 

 to exhaustion, like the potato, for the scientists 

 tell us how in propagating this tuber from eyes, 

 instead of seed, we have violated the method of 

 nature, and as a consequence, the potato will dis- 

 appear, along with the buffalo, the dodo and the 

 Indian. You have noticed, of course, that po- 

 tato plants seldom bear their balls or seed pods 

 now, although they did thirty years ago. It is 

 against the popularity of the rose that, on some 

 bushes, the flowers do not remain so long as could 

 be wished, yet there are other varieties which are 

 quite as enduring as any other plant that we 

 grow, unless we may except the geranium. I 

 have had a hybrid blooming In my yard for a 

 month together, and it often happens that a 

 second crop of flowers appears In the fall. This 

 Is a bushy rose, six feet high, bearing flowers of 

 mingled pink and white. We are told that once, 

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