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donderry, Victor Hugo. Teas and Noisettes: Cleopatra, 

 Comtesse de Naclaillac, Ernest Metz, Innocente Pirola, 

 Madame Cusin, Madame de Watteville, Muriel Grahame, 

 Souvenir d'Elise Vardon. Hybrid Teas: Captain Christy, 

 Mildred Grant, Papa Lambert. 



Garden Roses. 

 Comprehensiveness of the Term. 



The previous sections have chiefly dealt with what are 

 usually designated Exhibition Roses. There are, however, 

 other classes of Roses, which were once more largely cultivated, 

 but which have given place in great part to the more satis- 

 factory Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Teas, and Teas. There 

 is, in truth, much illusion on this subject. We hear people 

 talk a great deal about old-fashioned Roses, and go into 

 raptures about the old Cabbage and the Damask and York 

 and Lancaster Roses, which, it is said, are pushed into the 

 background by their more pretentious rivals ; but, in truth, 

 we have in our Exhibition Roses many with a perfume quite 

 as strong as that of the old Cabbage, while the delicate 

 fragrance of the Tea, Hybrid Tea, and Noisette Roses gives 

 us another kind of perfume, to many more pleasing than 

 the others. "Oh!" but some say, "there are the single 

 Roses; w^hat more lovely than even the wild Dog Rose?" 

 There are some of them, doubtless, very beautiful, but they 

 are evanescent ; and we must remember that in all these 

 Garden Roses \ve have but one season of blossoming they 

 come in with a rush in June, and when that beautiful wealth 

 of blossom is over they are simply green bushes for the 

 remainder of the season ; while you may gather from Hybrid 

 Perpetuals from day to day blossoms which, if not equal 

 to the summer ones, are still very lovely, and in the Teas 

 and Hybrid Teas you may, up to the very end of October, 



