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Among the more tender kinds (all the above, 

 except Lamarque, are perfectly hardy) you 

 will find Sombricl very near perfection, and 

 Clara Sylvain as dainty and delicate as its 

 name, and Cajnellia and Agrippina an unfail- 

 ing source of brilliant crimson and clear 

 white blossoms, the season through. Mine, 

 Falcot will give you plenty of lovely buff 

 buds (the full-blown rose is not so fine) and 

 Douglass is a rich deep red of peculiar shade 

 and beauty. And to go back to the hardy 

 hybrid perpetuals, do not fail to have Julet 

 Margottin among your new roses, when 

 they come. 



All constant bloomers do best credit to 

 their name if the faded roses are not al- 

 lowed to remain on the bush. It is not 

 enough to scatter the rose leaves in a pink 

 and white shower upon the grass ; the whole 

 rose — calyx and seed-vessel and all — should 

 be snapped off. Better still it is to take a 

 small sharp knife, or pruning scissors, and 

 cut back each flower stem that has lost its 

 treasure, to a point just above the next leaf- 



