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The varieties that have proved best with me, are, Common or 

 Old Moss, vigorous, free grower, color pale rose, fine double 

 flower — the best of all. 



Crested, next best, of vigorous growth, flowers very large and 

 double, buds beautifully crested, color light rosy pink. 



White Bath, a good grower, flower large and full, buds well 

 massed, pure white. 



Laneii, vigorous, upright grower and moderately free bloomer, 

 color deep rose, round handsome bud. 



Baronne de Wassenaer, color deep rose, perhaps the strongest 

 grower of all ; wood very dark and spiny, blooming in large 

 clusters of buds, not as mossy as some other kinds. 



Gracilis or Prolific, resembling the common, but with a 

 longer bud, color deep pink, fine. 



Celine, hardy, moderately vigorous, spreading, foliage dark 

 colored, leaves rather small, a profuse bloomer, bud rather soft, 

 not very double, color purple and crimson, pretty in bud ; it 

 would probably force well. 



Perpetual White, moderately vigorous, color pure white, buds 

 small and short stemmed, in rigid clusters of four to six buds, 

 foliage a light pale green, leaves crisped. Not very hardy. 



Reine Blanche and Gloire de Moussenses have not proved 

 hardy witli me. 



The so-called perpetual Mosses seem to me a myth as moss 

 roses ; they may be perpetual but they possess very little moss, 

 and the only variety that I have been able to save is Madame 

 Morean, which is a perpetual free bloomer. Many successful 

 growers recommend Madame Edouard Ory and Salet as the best. 



My ideal type of the Moss Rose is that the stem should be of 

 graceful, pendulous growth, crowned by at least two or more 

 blossom stems, with a cluster of buds on each ; the buds should 

 be moderately large, tapering somewhat to a point and well 

 mossed ; the common moss seems to possess most of these 

 requisites, which has led me to place it at the head of the list ; 

 another high in favor and very beautiful is Laneii, making an 

 upright, stififer growth with strong erect stems and rigid bud 

 stems, bud globular, well mossed, but lacking the graceful pendu- 

 losity of the former. 



The Common and Gracilis are well suited for laj'ering in 

 beds when grown on their own roots, as their growth is quite 

 spreading. If the shoots are layered in the ordinary manner, 

 they make fine plants in two seasons ; the process is easy ; first 

 stripping the leaves from a portion of the stem to be layered, 

 making a cut on the upper side about one inch below a bud, 

 and half through the shoot, and one and a-half or two inches in 



