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THE NATIONAL NURSERYIMAN 
\V. C. Jleed & Sons, Vincennes Nurseries, Vincennes, 
Ind., re])()rt a. very heavy demand and sales more than 
double. It is no longer a (luestion of ofl'ering stock, hut 
tryijig to hold hack enough to tak(^ care of tlie regular 
trade in assorted lots. 
Cai)t. JL P. Read, who formerly had charge of the lield 
w ork, is again in harness, after two years in service, and 
has l)ecome an active partner, looking after the growing 
and proi)agation. 
They have recently purchased 100 acres of the best 
nursery land adjoining the home place, and are planting 
75 acres more to ai)ple orchard. This with 85 acres al¬ 
ready planted, made it iin})ortant to secure more land to 
keep u{) their usual plant of nursery stock. 
A HANDSOME CHINESE ROSE. 
douhtedly take advantage of; and it is of considerable 
historical interest as the wild original of garden plants 
cultivated ])rohahly for centuries by the Chinese and 
know Ji in Europe and America for more than a hundred 
years. 
Editor National Nurseryman:— 
The ad. below, taken from “Life,” might he used 
(with change of name and address) by a trade organiza¬ 
tion, whose annual meeting wuis held in Chicago the lat¬ 
ter part of June. (Signed) “Reactionary.” 
PERSONS with any .sort of idea, foolisli notions, chimerical 
scliemes, untried reforms, visionary theories and pet projects, 
can liave tliem generously financed bj- addressing U. S. GOV¬ 
ERNMENT, W^ashington, D. C. P. S.—Would especially like 
to hear from the gentleman with tlie process for extracting 
sunbeams from cucumbers and the inventor of the method of 
lifting one’s self by one’s own boot-straps. 
In 1804 a Rose reached England from China and w hen 
it flowered was found to have small, clustered, double 
pink flow ers. It soon found its w ay to France and in 1821 
received the name of H. multiflora carnea. Redoute made 
it the subject of one of his graceful Rose jiortraits in Les 
Roses, the most beautiful of the many books devoted to 
Roses. In 1817 another of the double red or pink flower¬ 
ed multi flora Roses w'as sent from China to England and 
then to France. This plant received there the name of 
Rosa muliiflora ylatyphylla and its portrait was also 
painted by Redoute. It was called in England the “Seven 
Sisters Rose” and soon became a popular garden plant in 
Eurojie and the United States. Now it has almost disap¬ 
peared from gardens, having been replaced by the Ram- 
Ijler Rose, w hich is now^ one of the most popular Roses in 
the northern United States, is evidently a selected form of 
R. multi flora, plalyphylla and has been widely cultivated 
in China probably for centuries. From China it reached 
Japan, and in 1878 came from Japan to England. Rosa 
multiflora itself, which is a Japanese species with large 
clusters of small w hite single flowers, has been known to 
botanists since 1784 but did not reach England until about 
1875. Seeds of this Rose were sent, however, from Ger¬ 
many a year earlier to the Arnold Arboretum wdiere it has 
been largely used in the production of hybrid Rambler 
Roses. Nothing w-as known of the origin of the double 
l)ink and red-flow^ered Chinese multiflora Roses until 
1897 w hen a French missionary, the Abbe Farges, sent 
from w estern China to Monsieur Maurice L. de Vilmorin 
seeds of a hose w hich turned out to be a single pink- 
flowered //. mulliflora, and certainly the plant from 
which they liad been derived. x\ porti’ait of this })lant in 
flow(*r ajjpeared in 1904 in the catalogue of the Fruti- 
cetum Vilmoriiiianum, but it was not named and seems lo 
have been lost sight of. Wilson found it in wu^stern 
China wdiere it is very common, and collected seeds. Wil¬ 
liam Furdom, also collecting for the iVrboretum in Shensi 
in 1909, sent seeds to the Arnold xVrboretum. This Rose 
is now lo be called R. mulliflora, var. calhayensis; it is a 
hardy, vigorous, and handsome jilant w ith the habit of the 
Jajianese R. mulliflora. The flowers are from two to two 
and a half inches in diameter and are produced in large, 
many-flowered clusters, and the large, cons|)icuous, 
bright yellow anthers add to the beauty of the clear pink 
lietals. This Rose may well become a pojmlar garden 
plant. It offers possibilities which the hybridist will un- 
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EXPORTER i 
Japanese Pear Seeds. 
Japanese Pear Seeding. 2-16 3-16 4-16 
Diospyros Kaki (Japanese Persimon) Several varieties. 
Diospyros Kaki Seeding, (For grafting purpo e.) 
Pirus Toringo (Cutting for grafting apple.) 
Larixs Leptolepis Seed and Tree Seeds. 
Wistaria Chinensis Seeds. 
Large quantities special lowest prices on application. 
AMERICAN FLORlST^S TRADE DIRECTORY 
Price $3.00, Postpaid 
For Sale By 
NATIONAL NURSERYMAN PUB. CO. Inc., 
HATBORO, _ . - PA. 
