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small white flowers, which open late. The leaves are small and 

 shining. The plant lasts only a short time in bloom, but a well- 

 established subject bears thousands of flowers. This is the easiest 

 of all Roses to propagate. The new races of hybrids which have 

 been raised lately are, in some cases, several weeks ahead of R. 

 Wichiiraiana in blooming; they appear to be very hardy. The 

 flowers of R. Wichuraiana are capable of being fertilized with pollen 

 from a large number of different varieties, and the resulting progeny 

 varies greatly. Some have large, single flowers exceeding in size 

 any of the recent hybrid Sweet Briars; others are small, very double, 

 with petals arranged like the florets of a Zinnia. Some again have 

 the flowers so closely resembling those of the variety Hermosa as to 

 be mistaken for these, but the habit of all the seedlings partly sug- 

 gests their parentage. W. A. Manda of South Orange, N. J., was 

 the first to raise hybrids from this species. 



Penzance Briars 



Lord Penzance has given us an excellent addition to the Briars 

 in his hybridizations of the Sweet Briars, Rosa rttbiginosa, with 

 some of Hybrid Perpetuals and Teas. The flowers are bright, 

 cheerful and single, and the foliage is sweet scented. 



POLYANTHA, OR BaBY RAMBLERS 



Resembling the Rambler Roses, but of dwarf habit, we have a 

 group of admirable sorts, namely: Triomphe Orleanais is a cherry 

 colored variety; Erna Teschendorff is as bright as Gruss an Teplitz; 

 and Ellen Poulsen a crimson pink, floriferous and vigorous. 



Climbing Roses 



There are several species which have worked marvelous changes 

 in the climbing Roses. R. multiflora was the first to be developed. 

 It gave us Crimson Rambler, the most popular climber for many 

 years. Later came the use of R. Wichuraiana in the hybrids and 

 varieties with superb, glossy foliage resulted. Dorothy Perkins 

 illustrates this group. There is one other species, the Prairie Rose, 

 R. setigera, which has given us some superb varieties with large 

 single flowers borne boldly on huge trusses ; the American Pillar be- 

 ing a variety. Climbing Roses require little pruning except to thin 

 out old branches. These sorts, however, should be severely pruned 

 back at planting. 



