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dense mantle of glossy green leaves and many-coloured 

 flowers, and so making it one of the greatest beauty spots 

 in a garden wholly beautiful. The Roses are planted 

 four feet apart. As the summer shoots ramble fifteen 

 and even twenty feet in a season this seems too close, 

 but in reality it is not so, as a good thicket is wanted 

 near the centre. At this point many short flowering 

 shoots spring up like suckers. Of course the growth of 

 the different varieties intermingles. No pruning is done 

 except to reduce the old wood. Practically the Roses 

 look after themselves. 



The following are a few of the best varieties in this 

 beautiful collection : Alberic Barbier, cream ; Auguste 

 Barbier, ruby-red ; Coquina, salmon-pink ; Debutante, 

 rose-pink ; Dorothy Perkins, pink ; Edmond Proust, 

 coppery carmine ; Elisa Robichon, rose, shaded yellow ; 

 Frangois Foucard, lemon ; Gardenia, bright yellow ; 

 Jersey Beauty, pale yellow ; Joseph Lamy, white, 

 splashed pink ; Lady Gay, pink ; Francois Poisson, 

 white ; Paul Transon, pale pink ; Pink Roamer, pink, 

 silvery centre ; Rene Andre, pink, suffused with orange ; 

 Ruby Queen, deep red ; and Universal Favourite, pink. 

 A collection newly formed might include some of the 

 modern varieties, such as Aviateur Bleriot, saffron-yellow ; 

 Shower of Gold, orange-yellow ; Excelsa, crimson form 

 of Dorothy Perkins ; Jessica, cream, pink centre ; Milky 

 Way, white ; Sweetheart, white ; Troubadour, red ; 

 Minnehaha, pink ; Lady Godiva, blush ; and Dorothy 

 Dennison, pale pink. 



Selected varieties of this class also make beautiful 

 creepers when worked on to tall Brier stems ; for this 

 purpose the doubles may be grown, such as Dorothy 

 Perkins, Lady Gay, White Dorothy, Lady Godiva, 

 Excelsa and Minnehaha. If only one pink is wanted the 



