A New Rapid-growing Rose

M. de Vilman, says Cosmos, has produced a new rose, distinguished for marvellous rapidity of growth. The blossom measures not more than forty to fifty centimetres in diameter, and is a cross between a Japanese variety and a hybrid perpetual rose. The bush bears roses all summer, single, doublé, and semi-double, and they have the form of pom-pons, and tend to grow in clusters. The most striking thing about the new rose is its astounding rapidity of growth. Plants from seeds sown in the middle of January may be counted upon to blossom by the middle of April. Even more remarkable was the development of two plants from seeds sown on March 1 of this year. One of these began to blossom March 28, and the other three days later.