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MuUiflora is a marvel in blooming time. The bnsh 

 is literally covered with a flood of light pink flowers. 

 I have been watching these three varieties in our ex- 

 periment station in York and find them every way sat- 

 isfactory. All of them are hardy, vigorous and pro- 

 lific bloomers. 



They are easily raised from seed. Get a few plants, 

 take the seedballs and rub off the pulp, put them in 

 sand and let them freeze, or plant in the fall. Those 

 in sand you plant first thing in the spring. They come 

 up readily, and you will soon have enough for masses 

 or hedges. They are so easily raised no one should 

 be without them. 



CLIMBING EOSES. ■ 



These are a numerous famih\ We have Queen of 

 the Prairies, Seven Sisters, Baltimore Belle, Tennessee 

 Belle, and many others. But far transcending all 

 others, and worth more tlian all put together, is the 

 Crimson Ramhler. 



Some winters I have had twenty other kinds of roses 

 killed to the ground, and this would be unharmed. I 

 presume that in our extreme north it would be well 

 to take them down and cover in the fall. As a bloomer 

 there is nothing like it, unless it be the multiflora. 



Every stem and twig seems ambitious to do all it 

 can. It is no uncommon thing to find thousands of 

 flowers on a single bush. Though they have no fra- 

 gTance, they make it up in the wild, rollicking prodi- 

 gality of bloom. Other kinds have borrowed the name 



