I notice in May number remarks by Mr. A. Williams on Sunset Rose and blind wood. I have two thousand plants of this (with me) valuable rose in beds and in pots. I find it in habit of bloom and growth identical with Perle des Jardins. The buds are better keepers. It is my opinion that the "blind wood" is a natural result of too low temperature. I have houses running east and west, 1oo feet in length, two-thirds of the roof pitched to the south, with drop to the east of six inches in the ridge pole, gutters and plates, glass east ends, thus catching all the sunlight I can.

Soil - sand loam fed with clay, cow Ifianure and ground bone. Soil well stirred every week, with bone dust on the surface. Roses syringed every morning when the sun shines, with temperature at about 700. Night temperature at 550 to 620.

It is my impression that it is best to take cuttings from biooming shoots, of the strongest growth and from the strongest plants. It is also my experience that free budding is much enhanced if the soil is not over-watered. No florist has ever worked for me that uses as little water over the soil as I do. I do not want my soil leached by over water, or any forcing by extra heat. Constant steady treatment gives me plenty of blooms, and foliage to the ground. Normal Park, Illinois.