OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



with rose-colored blooms. If these had been prop- 

 agated, some slight difference between them and 

 Heinrich Schultheis might have been shown, but as 

 the color and form of these roses were practically 

 the same as specimens of Heinrich Schultheis growing 

 in the same garden, the experiment was not tried. 



Very often sports occur which are not noticed 

 and of which advantage is not taken. Recently, 

 while talking to the owner of a rose garden we were 

 informed that one of her Killarney bushes had 

 thrown out a red rose. There is a possibility that 

 a plant might in some way have been misplaced, 

 but the grower in question was quite sure that the 

 red rose was a Killarney and that on one side it 

 gave a flower of different color. We told her to watch 

 the plant very carefully the coming spring, as she 

 might have the pleasant experience of being the 

 introducer of a new variety. 



We do not wish to imply from this that sports 

 are of frequent occurrence, for in all the years we 

 have grown roses, and notwithstanding all the care 

 we have lavished upon them, we have never had a 

 sport manifest itself. 



SEEDLINGS 



Seedlings, as the name implies, come from seeds 

 hybridized either by chance or by man's handiwork. 



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