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I have no doubt that in good soil it would reach 

 one hundred feet in a very few years.. It is admi- 

 rably adapted for covering rock work, old build- 

 ings, or any other object requiring to be hid; it 

 also delights in a procumbent position, and can be 

 used for covering naked spaces of rough ground, or 

 even to make a flowery carpet of every shade of 

 colour. For the following varieties we are in- 

 debted to Mr. Samuel Feast, Nurseryman, Balti- 

 more, who raised them from seeds of the native 

 Prairie Rose. There is not a rose fancier but will 

 thank him for opening a field for the hybridizer, in 

 which the rose is to be cultivated to admiration, 

 and blooming six months of the year, throughout 

 every state of the Union. These roses will form 

 parents to be impregnated with the more fragrant 

 blooming sorts, such as Bourbon, Tea, Bengal and 

 Noisette. We may therefore expect from them a 

 progeny perfectly hardy, and blooming at least 

 three or four times during the season. In general, 

 rose-growing is confined to latitudes south of 41; 

 the Chinese varieties, and their hybrids, that bloom 

 constantly, being too tender to bear winter exposure 

 north of that line. When we can produce perpetual 

 blooming hybrids from this Rosa Rubifolia, they 

 will withstand every variety of climate, and per- 

 haps may some day be seen covering the frozen 

 hut of the Esquimaux. Baltimore Belle is a pale 



