RECORDS IN ROSES.
A rose tree on the wall of Hilcleshoim Cathedral, Prussia, can bo traced back with certainty to the eleventh century. Its main trunk is 20in thick, and the branches spread over the wall to a height of 25ft. The castle of Chillon, on Lake Geneva, in which the famous “Prisoner” of Byron’s poem was interned, has a veiw large rose tree of unknown age, and m the Marine Gardens at Toulon there is one that spreads across a space of 80ft by 15ft, and which has been known to bear 50,000 blooms at the same time! The biggest rose tree in Europe is in the Webrle Gardens in Friesburg, Germany. Its stock is a wild rose, on which a “ tea rose ” was grafted forty ago. To-day the bush is 120 ft high-
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Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 19
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135RECORDS IN ROSES. Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 19
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