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it bursts with great force. When flowers are designed 

 to be operated upon, the one intended to produce the 

 seed should be deprived of its anthers early in the 

 morning, which can readily be done with a pair of 

 fine scissors j then during the day, or within two days, 

 take a fine camel hair pencil, and obtain, about noon, 

 the pollen or dust from the plant or plants with which 

 you intend to make the cross, and apply this dust to 

 the pistil o£ th« roses from which you have previously 

 extracted the anthers. It will require some practice 

 before proficiency can be attained in the operation, 

 but a little attention will insure some success. The 

 organs are fit for the operation when the pistil has a 

 glutinous appearance on its summit, and the pollen is 

 dry and powdery. The flowers may be one or two 

 days old; rain is fatal to the operation — dry weather, 

 therefore, must be chosen. Patience and assiduity 

 can accomplish wonders in this department of rose 

 culture ; the persevering efforts of the French culti- 

 vators have been so very successful within the last 

 ten years, that we do not at all despair of seeing a 

 yellow Moss, a yellow Provins Kose, or even striped 

 roses, combining every shade from white to black, 

 and there is no reason why there should not be pro- 

 duced a perpetual blooming climbing Moss Eose of 

 any colour at present known in the family of the rose. 

 A few years ago we did not anticipate such a rose as 



