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and very durable. Reddish crimson in color, of fine form. Rather dwarf 

 in habit of gfrowth. Hardy. 



Paul Ncyron — No planting- is complete without this variety. Flowers 

 largest in size. If you are looking for a rose without thorns, this comes 

 very near being one. Color, pink to rose. Was largely planted at the 

 World's Fair. 



Vicks Caprice — Here is a truly striped rose. Flowers large, bud 

 is exceptionally well formed. Color, soft pink with carmine markings, 

 reminding one of some varieties of tulips. 



Crimson Rambler — Climber or pillar roses. Blooms but once, but 

 is a glowing mass of crimson. For covering porches or verandas this rose 

 is very much in demand. 



Dorothy Perkins — Of the rambler class. Flowers, shell pink, full 

 double. Other colors are being brought to the front and soon the 

 prairie rose will be supplanted by this class of climbing roses. 



FLOWERS INDOORS AND OUT.' 



(Marie L. Goodman, Kansas City, 40:0 Warwick.) 



The w.ord flower will suggest to each one of you whatsoever most 

 interests you in the flower world. If you are a gardener, you will think 

 of your favorite bed or the latest handsome specimen you succeeded in 

 growing. If you are a flower lover, your thought will pass to the dearest 

 blossom, the old-fashioned June rose or the lovely pansy. Or if you are 

 the flower decorator of the family, you are thinking of the newest arrange- 

 ment you effected by a combination of the bright red poppies with a tall 

 bunch of the white-sprayed Deutzia, how striking and artistic they were 

 in a tall, dark vase. Then, naturally, your mind will revert to the early 

 days of spring, when you were so glad to have the first flowers of the 

 year, the sweet violets, from the garden, to lend a touch of color to the 

 table, and relieve the eye from just the quiet green of the fern dish, which 

 has done duty all the winter in gracing the daily meals. A wise and 

 sweet-thoughted English writer, Richard Jeffries, has said : "Without 

 the violet all the bluebells and cowslips could not make a spring." These 

 hardy sweet violets will blossom for several years in the out-of-door beds, 

 with little or no care, except a covering of leaves, during the winter. If 

 the grass is allowed to encroach on the violet plants they will soon be 

 choked out, but a patch of them in a garden or bed, where they have room, 

 will flourish in a crop of sweet-scented blossoms beginning before the 

 snow is gone, and later will prepare for the next year by growing a thrifty 

 crop of leaves. Along with the violets come the crocuses, first the tiny 



