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Crimson Rambler is a new climbing 1 
rose that, from all we can learn, will 
prove a splendid acquisition. It is a real 
novelty, and one of undoubted merit. 
Just what class this rose belongs to, we 
have not yet been able to learn. It would 
seem to be pretty close to a climbing 
Polyantha. Planted in suitable soil, it 
is said that the shoots grow as much as 
10 feet in a season, or it may be restrained 
and grown in bush form. It is said to be 
perfectly hardy with leaves nearly ever¬ 
green. The flowers are borne in large 
trusses, reminding one of double pelar¬ 
goniums, of a bright crimson color which 
endures well. One English writer men¬ 
tions that on one shoot alone he counted 
over 300 blooms. Another avers that 
when the flowers are cut in proper con¬ 
dition, they will remain fresh in water 
for two weeks. This rose has received 
first prizes at the most important exhi¬ 
bitions of France and England. 
Crimson Rambler, we are told, comes 
from Japan, whence it was taken to Eng¬ 
land by the engineer of a steamship. Mr. 
Turner, an English gardener, saw its re¬ 
markable merits at once, and set out to 
propagate it as fast as possible. The 
stocks in this country are now so large 
that the rose will be offered in several of 
the new catalogues at a very reasonable 
price, probably 25 cents each. We shall 
have more to say of the Crimson Rambler 
in our catalogue number. 
Among tall-growing varieties of celery, 
probably there is none superior to the 
Ciant Pascal. It is a vigorous grower, 
blanches readily and keeps well. 
We are dela ing our mole-trap report, 
because we fancy our readers will take 
more interest in it next spring than now. 
Few would order mole traps now, three 
months before any use could be made of 
them. Then, too, it would be the easiest 
thing to forget all about it before the 
ravages of the moles would make readers 
eager to secure a perfect trap with 
which to subdue them. We shall speak 
of all the well-known traps from per¬ 
sonal trial, so that our readers may take 
their choice. Rut there is one kind—a 
late invention—that is, in the opinion of 
Ruralisms, simply perfect in all ways. 
It is our belief that no other trap will 
be sold when once this trap becomes 
known. It is set in the most simple way; 
the spring is powerful, so that the prongs 
act with lightning rapidity, piercing the 
mole through and through, killing it 
with comparatively little torture. The 
retail price is only $1, and we would 
much prefer it to the Hale’s trap—the 
next best one—which retails at $2. For 
those who care to order now, we may 
say that it is called the Reddick mole 
trap manufactured by the Michigan Wire 
Shovel Co. of Niles, Mich. 
Mr. W. F. Tafford, of Genesee Co., 
Mich., writes that he has produced a new 
variety of potato by planting spliced 
buds. He cut a Wisconsin seedling and 
a Polaris in two, being careful to cut 
through the center of an eye of each and 
then “stuck them together,” tying a 
string about them to hold the two parts 
firmly together. He cut out all the 
other eyes of each piece. One strong 
vine grew, and the haiwest was three 
fine potatoes differing from either variety 
spliced together. 
We are not aware that there is any 
proof that buds of different varieties of 
any plants whatever, cut in two and 
spliced, will produce a new variety. It 
is just as much grafting or budding as if 
a bud of one kind of apple or peach were 
worked upon another. Cutting two buds 
lengthwise through the middle and grow¬ 
ing them together, w T ill either kill one or 
the other or both, or, if they should unite 
and grow, half of the stem would still 
produce one variety, and the other half 
the other. .... 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Among hardy shrubs, the “Caryopteris 
Mastacanthus (Rlue spircea) ” is offered 
by A. Rlanc & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., 
as “ one of the most brilliant novelties 
from China that will be offered this sea¬ 
son.” Why Mr. Rlanc calls it a “ Rlue 
spiraea,” we cannot surmise, since it is so 
far from a spiraea that it is placed in the 
order verbenaceae. It was introduced 
into England in 1844. That it will prove 
“hardy in Roston” may fairly be doubted. 
Its chief value rests in the color of its 
clusters of flowers, being viol vet or blue, 
and in its late and profuse blooming. 
Since writing the above, we find the fol¬ 
lowing in Meehans’ Monthly : 
Caryopteris Mastacanthus. —For the past five 
years, this dwarf shrub has been under trial in 
the Meehans’ nurseries, and found to be one of 
the most desirable of late summer and autumn 
flowering shrubs. It is closely allied to an old in¬ 
habitant of our gardens—the Chaste bush—Vitex 
Agnus castus, and belongs to the same natural 
order, verbenaceas. The flowers are of a much 
darker blue than the Chaste bush, and the plants 
make a greater show. It is a native of northern 
China, and though the extreme twigs may be in¬ 
jured in high northern regions, it is not injured 
sufficiently to prevent a good show of bloom the 
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