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obtain lovely and sweet-scented flowers. Some persons seem 

 to expect that these Garden Roses are to be a thing of beauty 

 for the whole summer, but there can be no greater mistake 

 than this ; and if they imagine that by growing garden 



York and Lancaster Roses (Damask). 



Roses they are to have this enjoyment, the sooner they give 

 up the idea the better, and the less disappointment they will 

 experience; they will have a grand mass of blossom for 

 about three weeks, and then nothing more for the remainder 



