OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING 



White Killarney, a rose, as the name implies, of a 

 beautiful white; and Double Killarney, a rose of 

 greater substance in petallage than the stock from 

 which it sprang. 



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 varie- 

 ties which are crosses, such as the hybrids of today, 

 are very much more likely to give different growth 

 or different bloom than the old varieties, which were 

 not so far removed from the original species. 



Changes in habit of growth occur as well as changes 

 in bloom, and a great many of the Hybrid Teas and 

 some Polyanthas have produced sports which have 

 much more of a climbing habit than the dwarf bush 

 from which such new varieties originated. The 

 bloom in form and color is practically identical with 

 the parent stock, although its period of flowering is 

 usually shorter and its bloom less profuse. 



There is one very interesting illustration of a rose 

 which sported, the new growth of which when prop- 

 agated reverted to the original form of its parent 

 stock. Heinrich Schultheis, a Hybrid Perpetual rose 

 of deep, rosy pink, sported with Paul & Sons, of 

 London, and produced Paul's Early Blush, a light 

 silvery pink. Again it sported with Alex. Dickson 

 & Sons, in Ireland, and produced another silvery 



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