Maurice Bernardin Rose. 



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tain amount of dead wood will have to be cut out every spring, and the 

 ends of the shoots are usually killed. In this respect, it resembles most 

 of its class. We pruned a clump of six plants of this variety yesterday, 

 and could have wished that it showed the same toughness of constitu- 



Maurice Bernardin Rose. 



tion as a clump of "John Hopper," just beside it. This latter sort had 

 made shoots four feet high, and had no dead wood whatever. 

 The illustration is three fourths the natural size. 



April 22, 1871. 



