A SIMPLE ROSE GARDEN 



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8. Caroline Testout. 



i. Bon Silene. 



2. Papa Gontier. 



3. Safrano. 



Very large, round flowers, 

 of a delicate shell- pink, 

 flushed with salmon ; sturdy. 

 Teas 



The old favourite, unsur- 

 passed for fragrance as a 

 button-hole flower, or table 

 decoration when blended 

 with ferns or fragrant foliage 

 plants. Colour "Bon Si- 

 lene," tints of shaded pink 

 and carmine, all its own. 



A rose as vigorous as the 

 hybrid teas, and one that 

 may be easily wintered. 

 Pointed buds of deep rose 

 shading to crimson and as 

 fragrant as Bon Silene, of 

 which it is a hybrid. Flow- 

 ers should be gathered in 

 the bud. 



A true "tea" rose of 

 characteristic shades of buff 

 and yellow, with the tea 

 fragrance in all its perfec- 



