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quite safe until his enemy, taking a morning or evening walk,:spies out the 
folded leaf, and by a slight pressure between the fingers, puts an end to the mis- 
chief. Unfortunately this pest is, like Susan Nipper, a ‘‘permanency.”’ He 
abides, generation after generation, an unwelcome guest all the season 
through, and his weary and baffled human enemy sadly reflects that the price of 
roses, like that of liberty, is ‘‘eternal vigilance.”’ 
The destructive rose-bug of the east is, I believe, still a stranger here. 
Varieties and their Qualities. 
Although a large number of June roses may not be desirable, some are really 
indispensable in a good collection. Madame Plantier, the queen of whites, is 
invaluable. It gives every year a full crop of remarkably perfect blooms, remains 
in bloom from three to five weeks, and is one of the most reliable winter keep- 
ers. The white Provence, Unique is equally desirable, and is also an excellent 
pular rose. The flower is at first tinted flesh color, but becomes snow white, 
very lovely and graceful, and is deliciously fragrant. Madame Hardy is also a 
good white rose. 
There is perhaps no better pink rose than the Chancelier d’ Angleterre. It is 
a first class winter keeper. The flower is large, of fine form, of the true rose 
color, and very fragrant. 
Garibaldi keeps well, and is a profuse bloomer; the color about as nearly a 
scarlet as a rose ever is. 
Henderson's Peerless isa poor color, but its unique symmetry of growth and 
its lavish wealth of finely formed flowers, make it interesting. It keeps fairly 
well. The Sweet Briar, White Scotch and Yellow Harrison also deserve a place 
among the Junes, the latter especially, a gem among early roses. In fact, does 
any rose excel it in attractive qualities? It is perfectly hardy, its habit of 
growth is strikingly graceful, its foliage is small and delicate and, as well as 
the flower, is almost as aromatic as the Sweet Briar, and it blooms in extrava- 
gant profusion. My offers of gift of this rose have once or twice been rejected 
with scorn, but to myself, nothing in spring is more lovely than its long grace- 
ful branches, wreaths of shining emerald set with gems of that pale, pure yellow 
which so finely blends and harmonizes with the soft, tender green of the early 
verdure of spring. 
Geo. the 4th and Auretii are good dark roses, and are easily kept. 
I am sorry to say that I do not succeed in keeping Queen of the Prairie and 
Baltimore Belle successfully through the winter. It has seemed to me that, 
making as they do, a rampant growth late in the season, the wood does not 
mature sufficiently to resist the unnatural conditions of covermg and intense 
cold. But I am not a bit conceited about this theory, and am loth to parade it 
in view of the fact that one, and perhaps more of this city, does keep both these 
roses through the winter perfectly well, and gets plenty of flowers. 
In my mortifying failure I console myself with the fact that Nicollet Island is 
warmer than the main land. 
The Baltimore Belle is such a darling with its peculiar urn-shaped buds, their 
exqiuisite color and tea fragrance, that if one saves only a few short stems it 
pays well for any trouble, but the Queen is worthless except long vines can be 
preserved. As I cannot do this I am fain to say that ‘tthe game is not worth 
the candle.” 
