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their shoots by last Autumn far outstripped 

 the eight-foot posts and met along the strained 

 wire connecting the top of each, to form 

 this year a continuous rope of blossom some 

 sixty feet long. The Rugosas are tied to 

 two other wires two and four feet from the 

 ground, and promise to make a solid hedge 

 this season, which will be kept clipped at 

 five feet. If Dorothy Perkins was satisfactory, 

 the Rugosas even surpassed her. The white 

 ones for all this trio are perpetual were in 

 flower from the end of May to December. 

 The intense drought made no perceptible 

 difference to them save in a touch of 

 mildew here and there though they were 

 never watered. But Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , 

 how can I sufficiently praise you ? When I 

 first saw that huge bowl of you at the 

 Temple Show on April 30, 1904, exhibited 

 by Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, with the 

 encouraging label " Grown out of doors 

 without the slightest protection," I would, 

 but for your villainous prickles, have taken 

 you actually, as I did mentally, to my heart. 



