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ability of climbing roses for garden 

 use has led many into planting this 

 and Wichuraiana, and hybrids from 

 them, in continually increasing 

 numbers. A few progressive horti- 

 culturists have seen these things, and 

 there is a very marked tendency now 

 in various parts of the country to 

 raise up a new race of roses which 

 will fit our climatic conditions better 

 than the French races upon which 

 dependence has been placed, and to 

 which the mind naturally turns 

 whenever the rose is named. The 

 strong sun of summer and the 

 severe trials of winter make the 

 conditions for roses in America very 

 different from those that prevail in 

 England and in France, and the roses 

 which have been bred to meet the 

 requirements of those countries do 

 not always find things most comfort- 

 able for them here. Yet for a long 

 time to come reliance must be placed 

 upon such varieties of European origin 

 as are found best fitted to survive. 



The present trouble with roses 

 in American gardens is that the 

 bloom falls as soon as it is developed, 

 and while we can grow fine wood and 

 get a burst of bloom that is marvellous, 

 yet it is all over in a day or two, and 

 the season of the rose is dead in its 

 birth. Therefore is the present 

 tendency to try other roses for other 

 purposes than the mere blooms. 



There are hybridists at work who 



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