CHOOSING THE RIGHT KINDS 



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Selecting the Roses 



This is a vital matter. The most complete and authorita- 

 tive list of roses in our possession shows 10,281 varieties. The 

 most complete collection in any one plantation that has come 

 under our observation we did not attempt to count. It is 

 said to contain about six thousand varieties, including every 

 known species and every variety now obtainable in the 

 civilized world. (This garden, the Roseraie de L'Hay, will be 

 found more fully described on page 98.) 



The average number of roses actually in commerce in the 

 different countries abroad prior to August 

 i, 1914, was approximately one thousand, 

 while a half of that is the average number 



The luxuriant clusters of the white-flowered Dorothy Perkins, 

 example of the Wichuraiana family 



good 



