LUTHER BURBANK 



The new races are, indeed, so hardy that they 

 thrive in the northernmost parts of the United 

 States and in southern Canada. They are the 

 hardiest of all everblooming roses. 



Their vigor and capacity for production of 

 flowers are so great that they bloom incessantly 

 throughout the season. Among all the roses there 

 is none that excels them in the matter of almost 

 perpetual blooming. The number of flowers pro- 

 duced by an individual plant is also quite out of 

 the ordinary. 



Meantime the flowers themselves are very 

 superior in color to those of the Hermosa, and the 

 foliage of the plants is glossy and brilliant. 



These qualities were of course taken into con- 

 sideration by the judges who gave the gold medal 

 to the Burbank. But there were others which were 

 given, no doubt, almost equal attention by the 

 experts. One of these is the vigorous habit of 

 growth of the plant, through which it comes about 

 that it may be propagated almost as readily as the 

 least fragrant weed; will root almost as easily as 

 blue-grass, and will bloom when only two or three 

 inches in height, and keep on blooming month 

 after month, and year after year, if the buds are 

 not actually frozen. 



Another exceptional quality, which some prac- 

 tical horticulturists might regard as constituting a 



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