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whether the leaves be small or large, round 
or long, indented or regular, glaucous and 
smooth, or curled and rough. Then also we 
have to consider the productiveness and con- 
tinuity of bloom, and the hardiness of the 
plant. A year agoI made the discovery of 
a fact which has an important bearing in this 
matter. The majority of Hybrid Remontant 
Roses have five leaflets, though quite a num- 
ber of kinds in the class are freely furnished 
with seven. My discovery was this: All 
Hybrid Remontant Roses that have seven 
leaflets are light-colored sorts, rose-color, 
pink, etc. Excepting A. Geoffroy St. Hilaire 
there is no red or crimson Remontant having 
seven leaflets; by this I do not mean that a 
leaf-stalk of ared or crimson sort is ever 
furnished with more than five leaflets; iso- 
lated cases can be observed where seven leaf- 
lets are found, just as four and five leaved 
clover-stalks now and then come to notice. 
As a practical illustration of our comments 
on how to distinguish between similar varie- 
ties, we invite the amateur to study and com- 
pare Alfred Colomb, Marie Baumann, and 
Marie Rady; three of our best roses, sorts 
which have many qualities in common, so 
much so that the inexperienced, when first ob- 
serving them together, might pronounce them 
