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winter protection, such as all the Hybrid Teas 

 need in this latitude, they will be found to winter 

 well. 



Who could possibly want finer roses than those 

 shown in the two photographs illustrated on 

 another page of this volume? The lone flower 

 shown is an Ophelia, cut by the writer from a 

 bush on his office lawn, and the dish of Columbia, 

 which was likewise cut and photographed by 

 him from a bed, blooming on the lawn at his 

 residence. 



These Roses were all produced from Bench 

 Grown plants, and as one correspondent a short 

 time ago so aptly put it, "fit for any King or 

 Queen." 



The writer also has accumulated a vast amount 

 of evidence from various parts of the country, as 

 to how successful various growers have been with 

 this class of plants. One correspondent writes: 

 "Five weeks after I planted them, they were bloom- 

 ing. They are now all in bloom, some having four- 

 teen buds on at one time. It is needless 4 to say 

 that I am taking great pride in my Roses. They 

 are admired by many." 



Another correspondent, living at the seashore, 

 writes me that of about a hundred and fifty plants 

 set out, only one of them failed to grow, and that 

 the others have bloomed beautifully and abun- 

 dantly, and have been a source of great pleasure 



