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tinct sort. La Folie de Course^ bright rose, large, 

 and perfectly double. Lech is perhaps not a true 

 Damask, but a very distinct and pretty variety, 

 with white flowers edged with pink, "blanche 

 bordee.'' La Yille de Bruxelles is very double, of 

 a bright rose color, with strong foliage. Mathilde 

 de Mondeville is one of the sweetest of roses, of a 

 delicate rosy lilac fading to blush, and blooms 

 profusely. Painted^ Damash^ in some soils, may 

 have that quality indicated by its name, but in 

 my loamy soil it is always rose-colored, and not 

 so well painted as the old York and Lancaster^ 

 which is often striped, and frequently one-half 

 pink and the other half white, thus according 

 with the tradition, that, on the extinction of the 

 feud between the houses of York and Lancaster, 

 this rose sprung up, with the one side pink, and 

 the other white. Monthly Damask is a bright pink, 

 blooming in clusters, and repeatedly during the 

 season, if in rich ground. It is a general favorite. 

 White Monthly Damask is not such a free bloomer 

 as the former ; these bear seed freely, and have 

 been the parents of many of the roses known as 

 Perpetuals. In pruning, give them the same 

 treatment as directed for the Provins and Gallica 

 roses. 



