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roses of this type, is scentless. It is 

 almost white, and is one of the most 

 symetrically formed and most beauti- 

 ful roses that has ever been sent out. 



Merveille de Lyon, sent out about 

 the same time by a French grower, is 

 another rose of the same type — scent- 

 less, or nearly so, and a poor grower 

 also. The blooms are larger than 

 White Baroness, and of a somewhat 

 flatter form, and of a deeper shade of 

 color. It is a very beautiful rose. 



Queen of Queens, sent out about the 

 same time by Paul, will, I think, prove 

 to be a very valuable rose. It is a 

 good free grower, with large, finely- 

 shaped blush-colored blooms. The only 

 fault it has is that it is without per- 

 fume, or nearly so. I predict that this 

 rose will yet be considered a standard 

 variety. This and the other varieties 

 mentioned above are classed as Hybrid 

 Perpetuals. 



Sunset (a Tea rose sent out by Peter 

 Henderson), the next in order, was 

 sent out a year or two later. With 

 me it has proved to be a poor grower, 

 and very variable and uncertain in size 

 and color. It occasionally glows in 

 rich tints almost equal to the colored 

 plates which were sent out of it, but 

 more often it is a very washed-out, weak, 

 nondescript sort of a color in no way 

 suggestive of its high sounding name, 

 in no way resembling the glorious sky 

 or cloud painting of a real sunset. I 

 cannot claim to have been successful in 

 the cultivation of this rose. I am not 

 quite sure yet whether the fault is with 

 myself or with the rose. 



William Francis Bennett, sent out 

 about a year ago, a Hybrid Tea, and 

 raised, I think, by Bennett, came out 

 with a greater flourish of trumpets than 

 any other of these new roses, and has so 

 far (among amateurs at least) given the 

 least satisfaction. Most persons after 

 purchasing a new rose at a high price 

 expect at its blooming to find it some- 



what larger, more perfectly formed, 

 and more double, perhaps, than any rose 

 that they have before seen. Although 

 this rose is of good size it is very 

 loosely formed, and has so few petals 

 as scarcely to be called semi-double 

 even. Its good points are that it is of 

 a good red color, is very fragrant, and 

 in the bud and half-opened state is very 

 handsome. I do not think it will do 

 so well outdoors as La France and 

 some other Hybrid Teas. 



American Beauty, a Hybrid Per- 

 petual, came out next in order. Al- 

 though not a rose of the very highest 

 style of finish, it possesses a number of 

 good points. It is of a very deep rose 

 color, or carmine (not crimson, as some 

 of the florists' catalogues have it), of 

 good size, very fragrant, a very free 

 blooming rose, and the plant is a vigor- 

 ous grower. With all these good 

 things in its favor, it will no doubt yet 

 take its place in the list of good stan- 

 dard varieties. 



The last introduced Hybrid Per- 

 petual Rose of particular note is Her 

 Majesty. This is claimed by the intro- 

 ducer to be the largest rose yet raised. 

 It has not yet bloomed with me, and 

 all I can say of it from personal obser- 

 vation is that it is the stoutest growing 

 rose that I have even yet seen. It is 

 somewhat of the type of Baroness 

 Rothschild, but with thicker and larger 

 shoots, and stouter thorns, and more 

 glaucous foliage than that variety. 

 Those who have seen it in bloom in- 

 form me that the flower is as large as 

 Paul Neyron, and of a more delicate 

 and better shade of color. If so it will 

 prove a gi'eat acquisition. 



These are the most noted of the new 

 roses of the past few seasons with the 

 exception of the Marshall P. Wilder, 

 which came out a few years ago and is 

 now pretty well known. It is enough 

 to say of it, that although considerably 

 like Alfred Colomb, it has proved itself 



