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instead of being reminded, as I am, of a cross 

 between a Cochin and a Dorking fowl, they 

 recognized an infinity of distinctive attributes 

 which estrange that variety from the Hybrid 

 Bourbon in the most palpable and objective 

 form. But now that these summer roses are 

 no longer paramount rapidly disappearing, 

 on the contrary, before the superior and more 

 enduring beauty of those varieties which 

 bloom in summer and autumn too ; now that 

 several divisions formerly recognized are 

 gone from the catalogues, and others include 

 but two or three able-bodied roses on their 

 muster-roll it would be advisable, I think, 

 to ignore altogether these minor distinctions, 

 and to classify as summer roses all those 

 which bloom but once. Not without a pain- 

 ful sigh can we older rosarians witness the 

 removal of our old landmarks not without a 

 loyal sorrow do we say farewell to friends 

 who have brightened our lives with so much 

 gladness ; but we cannot long remember our 

 losses, surrounded as we are by such abun- 

 dant gains, and the tears of memory must 

 pass away as quickly as the dew in summer."* 

 We think within a few years the suggestion 

 of Canon Hole will be partially carried out 

 by nurserymen in their catalogues, but it 



* S. Reynolds Hole. 



