. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. zgog. The American Florist. 481 years it has been grown at the Norwood and West Hoboken ranges and care- fully watched. Its development has been so satisfactory that a large stock will be ready for dissemination this year in early autumn. Agnes Steinhoff is a single-flowered, pink rambler rose, the flowers being of a very beautiful shade and having the additional good quality of keeping bright and fresh looking on the plant for three weeks after opening. Another good point is that the flowers cluster on the top of
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. zgog. The American Florist. 481 years it has been grown at the Norwood and West Hoboken ranges and care- fully watched. Its development has been so satisfactory that a large stock will be ready for dissemination this year in early autumn. Agnes Steinhoff is a single-flowered, pink rambler rose, the flowers being of a very beautiful shade and having the additional good quality of keeping bright and fresh looking on the plant for three weeks after opening. Another good point is that the flowers cluster on the top of the plant and do not scatter all over it. The foliage is of a fine deep green and not subject to mildew. We are free to say that in the hands of a less modest man than Herman Steinhofif we would have been hearing of this rose for the past two years, but it is never too late to recognizi merit. It mav be said in passing, that the SteinhofE range now shows a fine lot of Easter stock. There are pot ioses in variety, azaleas and hydrangeas by the thousand, and about every other Easter offering, including fine lilies, that appeals to buyers. Roses In California. In California, where the rose runs rampant, it has become something of a fad within recent j'ears, to cultivate what IS known as rose "; More often than not. it is an unsightly shrub or tree which is chosen as a foundation, one which has perhaps served many years as an ornament, but which has now through accident or decrepitude, outlived its beauty as well as its usefulness- tor without beauty of outline and color- ing a tree of whatever description seldom succeeds in being useful. Everv- ouo appreciates the length of time it re- quires for the majority of trees to reach a sturdy maturity, and no true lover of nature and her manifestations likes to cut down a full-grown tree. So the d^^l ^'i °^-/'^' ^^'"^y ^"""bing rose IS often happily called into service in Older that the woodman may s
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