ROSE GROWING IN OREGON. 181 



It is unfortunate that some of the finest pink and white roses have 

 little or no perfume. Baroness Eothschild needs only perfume to be 

 almost a rival to Marechal Niel as the queen of roses. Captain Christy 

 and Mme. Gabrielle Luizet are but little, if any, inferior to it. Mer- 

 veille de Lyons and all the other white roses of the Baroness Roths- 

 child family are exquisitely beautiful, but, alas, all these lack the divine 

 afflatus of perfume. - 



I know that 



"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 

 For that sweet odor that doth in it live.'' 



But these grand odorless roses are so beautiful in every other rose 

 charm that they compel our greatest admiration, even if they do lack 

 this "Podore femnirnino." 



I am often amused by visitors from the eastern states who are not 

 willing to admit that the Pacific Coast states, as new communities, can 

 equal the eastern states in anything. They can but admire the size 

 and beauty of these odorless roses, but they almost invariably say, "Yes, 

 they are beautiful, but they lack the perfume these roses have when 

 grown in the eastern states." 



WHITE HYBRID REMONTANT ROSES. 



The most magnificent white hybrid remontant roses grown in Ore- 

 gon are Merveille de Lyons, White Baroness, Mabel Morrison, and 

 Margaret Dickson. 



Marchioness of Londonderry I account almost a failure, for while 

 it is of great size and of beautiful form and substance, its color is a 

 dirty white, due to an ugly shade of pink, which never completely fades 

 away. 



The florists care little for these hardy white roses, for, while they 

 produce magnificent flowers, they do not produce great quantities of 

 them, and are not profitable. Merveille de Lyons I consider one of the 

 finest of roses for size, shape, and color. The few roses its bushes pro- 

 duce are so magnificent that I am more than satisfied with their 

 shyness. 



DARK RED HYBRID REMONTANT ROSES. 



Oregon excels, also, with the hybrid remontant red roses, the crim- 

 son, carmine-crimson, scarlet-crimson, and maroon -crimson varieties. 

 These, for convenience, I call dark red roses in this paper. 



In the galaxy of beauty of dark red roses grown in Oregon we have 

 of the carmine-crimson and scarlet-crimson colors: Alfred Colomb, 

 Marie Baumann, Marshall P. Wilder, A. K. Williams, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, Marie Rady, Duke of Teck, Lady Helen Stewart, and many 

 similar varieties. 



