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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
December 9, 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The Baby Rambler Rose. —Without 
doubt the most popular new rose, as meas¬ 
ured by present nursery sales, is the 
“Baby” or ever-blooming Rambler, named 
Mme. Norbert Levavasseur by its French 
originator, and introduced over here two 
years ago by Vaughan’s Seed Store, Chi¬ 
cago and New York. It is freely pur¬ 
chased by both amateurs and professionals. 
One large rose-growing establishment re¬ 
ports that 25 per cent of their entire Fall 
trade is made up of orders for Baby 
Rambler plants in the various sizes. The 
variety undoubtedly has a wide range of 
usefulness, as it gives the popular Crimson 
Rambler effect in miniature, and is 
an almost constant bloomer, branching 
out and developing new trusses of bloom 
throughout the entire growing season. 
It was produced by intercrossing Crimson 
Rambler and Gloire des Polyantha, a very 
free-blooming Polyantha or miniature 
rose. Baby Rambler combines the foliage 
and crimson coloring pf the Rambler par¬ 
ent with the constant blooming quality 
and dwarf growth of the Polyantha. 
Plants grow about 20* inches high under 
stimulating culture, branching very freely, 
bearing clusters of flowers on every 
shoot, and beginning to bloom when of 
the smallest size. It is desirable both as 
a pot plant and for bedding. Fig. 399, 
page 879, from a photograph sent by a 
Chicago grower, gives a good idea of the 
bedding effect of well-grown plants, 
though details of the very abundant bloom 
are lost on account of the great reduction 
in size. As a pot plant the effect is par¬ 
ticularly fine when bloomed in midwinter 
after a good Fall rest. Thousands will 
be used for this purpose, and are likely to 
give good satisfaction, as they will con¬ 
tinue to produce handsome flowers as long 
as their requirements are met, instead of 
fading into unattractive briery plants like 
Crimson Rambler, grown under the same 
conditions. As with most deep-colored 
roses the blooms may burn out or open 
off-color during the hot days of July and 
August, but are restored to their original 
attractiveness in September. Baby Ram¬ 
bler is claimed to be very hardy, needing 
only sufficient covering in Winter to pre¬ 
vent heaving, and to protect the crowns 
from excessive frost. Ever-blooming roses 
need close pruning in Spring, especially of 
late and straggling growths, so that mod¬ 
erate frosting of the tops is more likely to 
be helpful than otherwise, provided the 
roots receive no injury. Plants of this 
variety have heretofore been quite expen¬ 
sive, costing from 40 cents to $2 each, 
according to size, but are now being so 
freely propagated that they will be offered 
at moderate prices in the forthcoming 
Spring catalogues. Certain nurserymen 
are going wild over this free-blooming 
Rambler, claiming it the only rose worth 
growing. Distinct and desirable as are its 
features, it requires no great foresight to 
predict that it will not displace any of the 
established favorites in other classes. It ( 
is not certain that “Baby,” or Mme. Nor¬ 
bert Levavasseur, quite fills the need of 
an ideal, continuous-blooming dwarf rose, 
as it lacks fragrance, and the color, though 
good in mass, is a less pleasing shade than 
either Philadelphia or the parent Crimson 
Rambler on close inspection, while the in¬ 
dividual flowers are less double and rather 
lacking in substance. It requires rich soil 
and careful attention to keep the bloom 
trusses up to the mark in size and coloring 
throughout the season. A writer in one 
of the new hysterical garden magazines 
asserts Baby Rambler is “the only rose yet 
introduced that can honestly be called an 
ever-blooming rose,” and in a succeeding 
paragraph “the only rose that can honestly 
be called a pot rose.” It is not good pol¬ 
icy to publish such nonsense, as every 
grower knows that many Tea-scented, 
Bourbon and Polyantha roses bloom more 
continuously under ordinary treatment, 
and make most excellent pot plants, 
though they are not hardy enough to give 
enduring satisfaction in the garden. We 
grew Baby Rambler with much pleasure 
this season, and regard it as a great ac¬ 
quisition. Every rose-lover should try it. 
Appreciated Celery. —Home-grown cel¬ 
ery is in better demand and more highly 
appreciated than for several years. 
Though the season, owing to continuous 
shortage of rainfall since early September, 
has not been particularly favorable, the 
supply is fair and the quality excellent. 
Consumers have grown tired of the coarse- 
ribbed, stringy kinds manufactured by the 
trainload in the swamps of Michigan and 
California, and are turning to the more 
palatable home product as far as it can 
be had. Prices obtained by growers aver¬ 
age about $1 per 12 bunches, consisting 
each of three or four well-grown plants. 
There is no great profit in the crop at this 
figure, considering the high cost of land, 
fertilizers and labor, but it comes in well 
as a second crop after lettuce, radishes, 
onions and other bunch vegetables. Blight 
is largely avoided by sowing only the 
most vigorous seeds, rotating the crop and 
thus avoiding successive plantings on the 
same soil. It is thought that by cropping 
celery not oftener than once in three years 
on the same soil the worst effects of blight 
may be avoided, though the disease is 
usually in evidence during hot, muggy 
weather. 
Strong Plants Best. —Growers have 
generally learned that big, stocky plants, 
grown thinly in the row or seed bed, 
are far preferable to spindling, crowded 
ones, even if the latter have been trans¬ 
planted long enough to make a fibrous 
root system. As one very successful local 
grower remarks, “Celery is made in the 
plant.” 1 his is only one way of saying 
that no subsequent culture can make up 
for lack of vigor in celery plants at time 
of setting. He aims to grow his plants 
with thick carrot-like rootstocks, and 
avoids any doubling of the tap root when 
setting, but is particular to have the earth 
firmly pressed the whole length, or rather 
depth, of the root system when the plant 
is finally in place. He sows his seeds 
early in a large rich but unprotected seed 
bed. and thins so that every plant stands 
half an inch from its neighbor. Of course 
he manures well and cultivates freely, so 
that his celery fields are as even and lux¬ 
uriant as Alfalfa in full growth. His soil 
is sandy upland. We think all will agree 
that celery of better table quality can be 
grown on rich upland than in swamps, no 
matter how well drained and cultivated. 
The Best Varieties. —For such an im¬ 
portant vegetable the usual list of celery 
varieties is not extensive, though a num¬ 
ber of fancy kinds, only useful for home 
gardens, are catalogued. For market pur¬ 
poses Golden Self-blanching, in some of 
its many strains, is almost universally 
grown for early use, and Pascal or Winter 
Queen for succession. As practically all 
celery grown near New York is marketed 
by the New Year very late keeping kinds 
are not needed. Those who know a spe¬ 
cially good thing grow Fin de Siecle, in¬ 
troduced by J. M. Thorburn & Co., New 
York, a few years ago. It is a green¬ 
leaved variety with no tendency for 
blanching in the field, but we think the 
claims of being the “largest, hardiest, 
solidest. crispest and best keeping Winter 
celery” fully borne out in our trials. We 
have not tried it as a shipper, but have 
no doubt it will lead in this useful quality. 
For table use we have found nothing more 
delicately flavored and agreeable since the 
days of the excellent but unproductive 
Boston Market, from which Fin de Siecle 
may be a highly improved descendant. 
For cellar bleaching, after being grown 
level, with no earthing up, it is without a 
peer. We know this variety is grown by 
discriminating market gardeners to some 
extent, but we have not ascertained how 
much is planted in this locality. Western 
celery is always with us, but is now meet¬ 
ing more competition than for many years. 
While not very good eating, it is at least 
bulky, and fills a need in large culinary 
operations. During late Winter and 
Spring it has the market all to itself. 
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