OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



seem active. When the pollen is falling from the 

 anthers in the small, yellow dust, just mentioned, 

 there is little doubt that your rose will be properly 

 fertilized, it being only necessary to shake the pollen 

 on to the pistils of the rose selected as a seed parent 

 for the hybridizing to be complete. If you desire to 

 use the rose you have selected as pollen bearer also 

 as a seed parent, you must remove the pollen from 

 it as suggested above, otherwise it will become fer- 

 tilized by its own pollen. Perhaps it is safer to be 

 sure of each experiment as one progresses; therefore 

 it is well to cut off the anthers before the pollen 

 becomes ripe and then, cutting the rose selected for 

 the other parent, dust its pollen on the seed parent 

 selected. 



We have found that practically all of the roses 

 we have hybridized have become good, healthy seed 

 pods and have contained seeds; this success we 

 attribute to the fact that we have always used great 

 care and have never tried to. hybridize except with 

 active pollen. 



After roses have been hybridized you have nothing 

 to do but allow the seed pods to develop, and when 

 the weather becomes warm in late spring or early 

 summer take the plants from the greenhouse or 

 conservatory and plant the pots in soil out-of-doors 

 to enable the heps to mature properly. In order to 



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