THE PROPAGATION' OF ROSES 



NEW VARIETIES 



New varieties of roses are developed in two ways : 

 by sports and seedlings. 



SPORTS 



Sports are purely a matter of chance, and occur 

 when any given variety shows a bloom or habit of 

 growth different from the accepted plant. When this 

 occurs propagation of the wood by cuttings, budding 

 or grafting establishes the new variety. 



As illustrations of sports, the two following are 

 well known and are changes from the parent stock 

 in the color of the bloom itself: 



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 

 parents; it was only in the color of the rose that the 

 change manifested itself. 



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

 sported a number of times, giving among others 

 Killarney Brilliant, a rose of a deeper shade of pink; 



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