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with silvery inner petals suffused with buff, is 

 worthy of a place in the front rank of the 

 many pink and salmon Tea Roses ; though, as 

 I have said, few can excel the lovely old Souvenir 

 <Tun Ami. Catherine Mermet is the beautiful 

 mother of many children : and chief of her 

 descendants is Bridesmaid, the well-known Rose 

 of which such thousands are forced in early 

 spring for Covent Garden. Of a deeper pink 

 and sturdier growth, this Rose has almost super- 

 seded its parent for market. Maid of Honour, 

 a deep rosy pink, is another sport from Cathe- 

 rine Mermet, and so is the grand Exhibition 

 Rose, Muriel Grahame. Maman Cochet, a fine 

 show Rose, is also as good a border Rose as one 

 can find. It was in flower here last year from 

 June to mid-October, its enormous blossoms 

 the admiration of all who saw it. Mrs. Edward 

 Mawley, another fine salmon pink, is more 

 effective as a standard than as a dwarf, owing 

 to its drooping habit of growth. And Madame 

 de Watteville has never been wholly satisfactory 

 with me : but where the buds have been well 

 thinned, as in the " Expert's " Thames Valley 



