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amateur or professional, in Oregon. He delights in producing speci- 

 men roses. All his roses are grown in the garden. The Paul Neyron 

 is one of the largest roses known. Catalogues published in the eastern 

 states speak of it as attaining a diameter of seven inches. This friend 

 of mine has produced for years many Paul Neyron roses measuring 

 between eleven and twelve inches in diameter by actual measurement. 

 Many other varieties grown by him are simply marvelous in size. 



DEVELOPMENT IN ROSES. 



Most people, who are not rosarians, know the names of but two dark 

 red roses which grow in the gardens, viz., Black Prince and General 

 Jacqueminot, the latter being usually called "Jacqueminot," or, more 

 familiarly, "the Jack." 



Black Prince is a very inferior rose and rarely grown. It has small, 

 dark crimson flowers, usually imperfect. Few people have seen it. 

 But the name sounds fine, and many people like to speak familiarly of 

 royalty. It is the name they apply to all dark crimson roses. 



Nearly all other dark red roses, of whatever shade, except the Amer- 

 ican Beauty, these people usually call Jacqueminot. So, of course, 

 Jacqueminot to them is the most beautiful red rose, because it includes 

 nearly all. In fact, General Jacqueminot is now passed as a fine gar- 

 den rose. It has been superseded by its rivals, especially the younger 

 and more beautiful brunettes, some of which are its children or descend- 

 ants. Before the year 1885 Dean Hole (then Canon Hole), the greatest 

 of amateur rosarians, wrote that General Jacqueminot must pale its 

 "ineffectual fires" in the presence of its more charming rivals produced 

 by the development in roses. With Dean Hole, I respect General 

 Jacqueminot for what it has been. But as beauty is the test, like 

 other men, I have followed the new and more entrancing beauties. As 

 new varieties are produced excelling the old, the old are crowded out. 



THE ROSE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. 



From the earliest times the rose has been the subject of poetry and 

 of song. A Latin or an old English poem on the rose is about the 

 rose as it was at the time the poem was written. As imperfect as roses 

 were then, as compared with the roses of to-day, they excited great 

 admiration. The music which the Greek and Roman poets praised so 

 highly was almost as inferior to the music we now have as the Chinese 

 music is. 



The rose is the finest, the most beautiful, and the most delightfully 

 fragrant of all flowers grown in the open in the temperate zone. It 

 will grow everywhere almost without cultivation, but it reaches its full 

 perfection only when the climatic conditions and the cultivation are 



