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beautiful semi-double is Lady Waterlow, its 

 clear salmon-pink petals edged with crimson ; 

 and when gathered in large bunches its effect 

 is most striking. 



Messrs. Alex. Dickson & Sons, of Newton- 

 ards, have recently introduced a number of 

 very interesting single Hybrid Teas, begin- 

 ning with Irish Beauty, Irish Glory, and Irish 

 Modesty, in 1900; the singularly brilliant 

 Irish Star, Irish Brightness, Irish Pride, in 

 1903; followed by the dazzling scarlet Irish 

 Engineer, Irish Harmony, and Irish Elegance, in 

 1904-5. In foliage, growth, fragrance, and 

 peculiar brilliancy of colour, this new race 

 of Roses is a valuable acquisition to the 

 garden. They are all free-growing, of branch- 

 ing habit, and admirably suited for cultivation 

 as isolated bushes ; for they attain a consider- 

 able size very quickly, and are covered with 

 flowers till the frosts cut them. 



In the last two years I have planted all my 

 dwarf Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses in a set of six 

 small and six large beds 5 feet wide, arranged, 

 as far as possible, according to colour. For 



