GARDEN NOTE.
THE CRIMSON RAMBLER ROSE. The presence of the Crimson. Rambler rose about the homes of everyone, both poor and rich (says a garden writer); is gotid- evidence of its worth, and without doubt it is the greatest acquisition of any rose preceding it for many years/ Its colour,'a deep crimson, its freedom of flowering; its hardiness, all combine to place it at the head of air roses of it 3 class. In any place, where a bush of it has been seen, all persons who have a place for it want a plant. It is such a sure bearer that when once planted and thriving, flowers may be .relied on every spring. Another thing in its favour is that 'it is rather a later flowering mid-summer - '.rose .than many others. Just as the main crop of these rosea is over, the Crimson Rambler blooms, prolonging the season for spring roses by several weeks. ' - A good feature of the Crimson Rambler is its surety of flowering. As soon as ■growth starts in! spnng it commences• to push forth one or morestrong shoots, which, on vigorous bushes, will make a growtn. of perhaps eight feet. These are the shoots that will'give the fin.';-the next year, and so thoy have to be preserved. Let them grow as they will through the 'season, -shortening-them* baok a little when winter is over. A shoot eight feet long should be shortened .tojsix,feet,-a^dr,it Trill flower abundantly;- T Wh*eri-'these have done flowering they should be cut away, so that the strength - of v the plant may be given to forming for the cdming Eeason. Baby Rambler differs widely from the Crimson Rambler. It has crimson flowers, but :'nbt of such a rich colour as the Crimson -Rambler, and. -it cannot' becalled ■ a Rambler at all. It. is a dwarf bush rose, but in its abundance of flowers it'excels any rose:known.From summer until frost it is continually in flower.! Even if the flowers are but .small, they'-make a pleasing :display, fitting- the plaint admirably for'ir cetfetery, where' something small, yet constantly in bloom, is required.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 5
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348GARDEN NOTE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 323, 9 October 1908, Page 5
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