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There is a pink variety that is also good, but it 

 does not bloom quite so freely as the white. This 

 little Rose bears its flowers in clusters and keeps 

 putting them forth unceasingly from the middle of 

 June until the black frosts; I have found it bloom- 

 ing in the garden after several days of hard freezing 

 weather. It is of a most modest disposition and 

 will, consent to bloom unseen for an indefinite pe- 

 riod. It has been forgotten in the garden and 

 allowed to become completely smothered by the 

 rank Midsummer growth of Dahlia, Phlox, Zinnia, 

 etc., and yet appeared smilingly, covered with 

 bloom after a heavy frost had mowed down its 

 more susceptible companions. It has never re- 

 quired more protection in Winter than the perpet- 

 ual Roses. 



Transplant Remontant Roses in the Fall if pos- 

 sible ; if not, then very early in the Spring, in March, 

 while they are still dormant and when the frost is 

 just out of the ground. If the season is rainless 

 watch them carefully and be sure that they do 

 not dry out. Very good Roses are grown in Cali- 

 fornia, much better than in Holland, and these 

 should be used if you cannot obtain plants from 



