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whether the leaves be small or large, round 

 or long, indented or regular, glaucous and 

 smooth, or curled and rough. Then also we 

 have to consider the productiveness and con- 

 tinuity of bloom, and the hardiness of the 

 plant. A year ago I made the discovery of 

 a fact which has an important bearing in this 

 matter. The majority of Hybrid Remontant 

 Roses have five leaflets, though quite a num- 

 ber of kinds in the class are freely furnished 

 with seven. My discovery was this: All 

 Hybrid Remontant Roses that have seven 

 leaflets are light-colored sorts, rose-color, 

 pink, etc. Excepting A. Geoffrey St. Hilaire 

 there is no red or crimson Remontant having 

 seven leaflets ; by this I do not mean that a 

 leaf-stalk of a red or crimson sort is never 

 furnished with more than five leaflets ; iso- 

 lated cases can be observed where seven leaf- 

 lets are found, just as four and five leaved 

 clover-stalks now and then come to notice. 



As a practical illustration of our comments 

 on how to distinguish between similar varie- 

 ties, we invite the amateur to study and com- 

 pare Alfred Colomb, Marie Baumann, and 

 Marie Rady; three of our best roses, sorts 

 which have many qualities in common, so 

 much so that the inexperienced, when first ob- 

 serving them together, might pronounce them 



