xJ. B. Clark (IIfustrated below.) Tremendously vigorous in growth, 
———__—_———. throwing up stout, thorny canes, 6, 10, and possibly 
12 feet high. When properly trained it makes a magnificent bush, and, if 
desired, it can be successfully used as a pillar Rose or bent in at the top and 
tied together in a balloon form. A little care is necessary to keep it within the 
bounds of an ordiary bed. The flowers are of immense size and depth of 
petal, of impressive substance and unimpeachable form; dark scarlet-crimson 
with deep vems and mysterious shadows. It usually blooms m clusters of 
three or more, but the dividual flowers will be still fmer if only one in each 
cluster is permitted to develop. As is the case with almost all red Roses, some 
shade is beneficial, and helps to retard the almost mevitable fading of the 
color. The flower is quite fragrant, with long stems, making it fine for cutting. 
The quantity of June bloom is remarkable. The young foliage is bronzy 
green, healthier than most Hybrid Perpetuals. While this variety has no 
natural mclination to bloom again during the summer, It may be induced to 
do so by pruning back to three or four eyes from the main stem, zmme- 
diately after the June blooms have faded. By repeating the operation the 
= bush may bloom again im the fall. $1 each; $9 
for 10; $80 per 100. 
