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on what you have set. Select your best seedlings, 

 and in time you will have a collection worth the 

 while. 



Otherwise among the flowers let your wife and 

 children, as I have already said, run their hobbies. 

 I am pretty sure that you will find plenty of sweet 

 peas and China asters somewhere about. 



As for roses you can do as you please; you can 

 either grow them in your shrubbery, or you can have 

 a special rose garden. Only enough roses we will 

 have; it is not home without them. Here is a little 

 list to start you. I do not believe that you can do 

 much better at the outset than to plant what are 

 called the five Cochets. These include yellow, pink, 

 white, red, and crimson and are entirely hardy. If 

 one had nothing else but this group, he would be well 

 supplied with roses all through the blooming sea- 

 son. 



If you wish to select a few of the very best iron- 

 clads, out of what is called the hybrid perpetual class, 

 take General Jacqueminot, Paul Neyron, Gloire Ly- 

 onaise, Prince Camille de Rohan. White American 

 Beauty, or as it is sometimes called Frau Karl 

 Druschki, is one of the most magnificent of our newer 

 sorts. With this plant Betty and Killarney and J. B. 

 Clark, a huge rose of fine quality. Of the hybrid 

 teas I should select Joseph Hill, Souvenir de Woot- 

 ton, Olivia, and Franz Deegan. All the roses in 

 this class are pretty close to hardy. It might be 

 well to hill them up a little during the winter. Vir- 



