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compatible. The constant care and attention required, in 

 order to ensure success, place it in a great measure beyond 

 the limits of a large commercial establishment. The 

 great desideratum at this time is a double, yellow, climb- 

 ing rose. If the Harrison Rose were fertilized Avith the 

 Queen of the Prairies, or the latter with the Solfaterre or 

 Chromatella, a rose might possibly be obtained with the 

 rich yellow of the Harrison Rose, and the robust habit 

 and beautifully formed flower of the Queen of the Prairies. 

 While, however, we recommend this mode of artificial 

 impregnation, we would by no means discourage the sow- 

 ing 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 crossed fecundation. It is a fact generally admitted by 

 botanists, that all varieties of plants will generally pro- 

 duce from their seed plants very dissimilar, preserving, 

 perhaps, some peculiarities of their parents, but difiering 

 in many essential particulars. 



It will thus be perceived that, in the simple sowing of 

 seeds, where there is a dislike to the trouble of artificial 

 impregnation, there is a wide field for experiment and for 

 successful result. But to those who have the leisure and 

 the patience to transfer from one plant to another its fer- 

 tilizing matter, it forms a pleasant amusement, with rather 

 a greater probability of satisfactory results. In either 

 case, every amateur of roses should have his seed-plat ; 

 and if, out of a thousand, or even five thousand roses, he 

 should obtain one good variety, and differing from any other 

 known, he will be conferring an important service upon 

 rose-culture, and will encourage others to pursue the same 

 course, until we shall be in no wise behind either France 

 or England in this interesting branch of horticulture. 



