BEST VARIETIES WITH CHARACTERISTICS 



tion, as they have continued to do as well as they 

 did formerly, but newer roses brought out and tested 

 during the past few years have been improvements 

 over them. 



No Hybrid Perpetuals are included in the list of 

 the forty-eight best garden roses because the Hybrid 

 Teas, where they may be grown, are far superior. As 

 an illustration of this, Frau Karl Druschki, tested 

 near Philadelphia by Dr. Huey with two exception- 

 ally fine plants, gave an average of thirty-eight 

 blooms during 1916, and the blooming season was 

 over in July. In very damp seasons Druschki will 

 give scattering blooms in the early fall. Madame 

 Jules Bouche gives more blooms than Druschki 

 throughout the season, with better perfume, and is 

 therefore considered of more value than Druschki 

 except in the North. 



LIGHT COLORED SECTION 



There are many light-colored roses, and it is so 

 difficult to know where they verge into the lighter 

 pinks or lighter yellows that no arbitrary line can 

 be drawn. The roses selected are placed in the order 

 of personal preference. 



The most beautiful of this class for cut flowers are 

 Madame Jules Bouche, Ophelia, Souvenir du Presi- 

 dent Carnot, Antoine Rivoire and Mrs. Harold 

 Brocklebank, although other roses are of fair enough 



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