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this, I feel persuaded, is far the best and most 

 effective way of growing them. The small 

 beds each contain five plants of one variety. 

 Caroline Testout and Madame Abel Chatenay 

 are the first pair ; Papa Gontier and General 

 Schablikine, the second ; Madame Lambard and 

 Killarney, the third. Alternate with these 

 come the large beds containing fourteen plants 

 each : but here I have been obliged to mix 

 the many varieties, keeping as far as possible 

 to those that will shade well into each other. 

 The first pair are both pink. Of the next 

 pair one is white, the other yellow. The 

 third are all shades of red, China-red, and 

 nasturtium ; Marquise de Salisbury, Liberty, and 

 the marvellous Guillot pair of Teas being 

 plentifully used. And when I look upon 

 the wonderful diversity of colour and form, 

 and the endless varieties of these lovely Roses 

 that give me such delight from June to 

 November, I can only regret that the amateurs 

 of forty to fifty years ago were deprived of 

 endless enjoyment, by believing the legend 

 of their delicacy. 



