OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



La France, color silver rose, sported with Paul & 

 Sons, near London, in 1888, and gave the Duchess 

 of Albany, called dark La France, a rich, deep pink. 

 This was propagated and Duchess of Albany is now 

 a well-established variety. 



Camoens, pale rose color with the base of the 

 petals yellow, sported with Boytard, in 1907, and 

 the new rose was called Ecarlate, a brilliant scarlet. 



With these two new varieties the habit of growth 

 of the plants remained practically the same as their 

 parent plrnts; it was only hi the color of the rose 

 that the change manifested itself. 



In the past few years the old rose, Killarney, has 

 sported three tunes, giving Killarney Brilliant, a 

 rose of a deeper shade of pink; White Killarney, 

 a rose, as the name implies, of a beautiful white; 

 and Double Killarney, a rose of greater substance 

 in petallage than the parent stock from which it 

 sprang. These new roses will, no doubt, take their 

 places in the list if they do as well as the old estab- 

 lished Killarney, which there is every reason to 

 believe they will do. 



Before so many hybrids were cultivated, and 

 when roses were not grown to as great an extent as 

 now, sports were naturally less frequent. Of course 

 varieties which are crosses, such as the hybrids of 

 today, are very much more likely to give different 



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