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in an equal degree, the removal of the anthers must not take 

 place: thus I have found, by removing them from the Luxem- 

 bourg Moss, and fertilizing that rose with a dark variety of Rosa 

 Gallica, that the features of the Moss-Rose are totally lost in its 

 offspring, and they become nearly pure varieties of the former; 

 but if the anthers of the Moss-Rose are left untouched, and it is 

 fertilized with Rosa Gallica, interesting hybrids are the result, 

 more or less mossy. This seems to make super-foetation very 

 probable ; yet Dr. Lindley, in his Theory of Horticulture, thinks 

 it is not very likely to occur." 



There is no branch of rose culture possessing more interest for 

 the amateur, with whose leisure its prosecution is compatible. 

 The constant care and attention required, in order to ensure suc- 

 cess, place it in a great measure beyond the limits of a large com- 

 mercial establishment. The great desideratum at this time is a 

 double, yellow, climbing rose. If the Harrison Rose were fertil- 

 ized with the Q,ueen of the Prairies, or the latter with the Solfa- 

 terre or Chromatella, a rose might possibly be obtained with the 

 rich yellow of the Harrison Rose, and the robust habit and beau- 

 tifully-formed flower of the Queen of the Prairies. While, how- 

 ever, we recommend this mode of artificial impregnation, we 

 would by no means discourage the sowing of seeds whose flowers 

 have not thus been fecundated. The seed of the Harrison Rose, 

 or of any of the yellow roses, may, if perseveringly saved from 

 generation to generation, produce a yellow climbing rose. In 

 fact, we are inclined to think that among all the reputed hybrids, 

 a much less number than is supposed owe their origin to a cross- 

 ed fecundation. It is a fact generally admitted by botanists, that 

 all varieties of plants will generally produce from their seed plants 

 entirely dissimilar, preserving perhaps some peculiarities of their 

 parents, but differing in many essential particulars. This is 

 well known to cultivators in the instances of the Pansy, the 

 Fuchsia, the Verbena, and other plants ; and that it is also the 

 case with the Rose, is evinced by an experiment of the French 

 cultivator, Guerin. He gathered a seed vessel from a rose bush, 

 the Blower of which had only partially developed itself, and the 



