THE NEW ROSARY 



creamier pinks of Paul Transon, make such a delicious 

 bouquet of bloom, all on the same pillar. 

 The hedge of Penzance Briars, though only a couple of 

 feet above the ground as yet, has thrown out long lines 

 of starry blossoms, shading from faint primrose to deepest 

 crimson, with intermediate constellations of pinks and 

 carmines that out-do both Dorothy Perkins and 

 Zephyrine Drouhin. 



The new Rose Garden is shut off on the west by a 

 fir-tree avenue, and we are trying to coax white and red 

 Wichurianas up the stems, in spite of all expert pessimism. 

 Marquise de Sinety is a delicate, warmly tinted, pinky 

 cream Rose. Catalogues, no doubt, would call her 

 " salmon "/ but it is such a horrid word that we prefer 

 to present the picture under another aspect. 



Do not let anyone subject to the watery caprices of an 

 English climate place their trust in Maman Cochet ! Her 

 heavy bud becomes hopelessly sodden after anything like 

 a shower. One can conceive that this dowager would be 

 a handsome enough object in a southern garden, or that 

 she would be a good greenhouse rose/ but, like many 

 another, she does not bear adversity. 

 Handsome, bland Caroline Testout keeps up her self- 

 contained smile unimpaired in fair and foul weather/ 

 " fat-faced Puss " that she is, a very Gioconda among 

 roses, even to the close folding of her plump leaves, which 

 remind one of that overrated charmer's compact hands. 

 It would take a good deal to shake her equanimity/ 

 scentless, soulless beauty ! 



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