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are liglit-colored sorts, rose-color, pink, etc. 

 Excepting A. Geoffroj St. Hilaire there is no 

 Ted 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 ; isolated cases can be observed 

 where seven leaflets 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 varieties, we 

 invite the amateur to study and compare Alfred 

 Colomb, Marie Baumann, and Marie Eady ; three 

 of our best roses, sorts which have many qualities 

 in common, so much so that the inexperienced, 

 when first observing them together, might pro- 

 nounce them the same rose. But the expert at 

 once sees distinctive traits that separate one from 

 the other, he notices that Alfred Colomb is the 

 darkest in shade of the three, that it has a more 

 globular, pointed bud and flower than Marie 

 Baumann ; that the wood is much more smooth 

 than the others ; that late in the season the flow- 

 ers have more substance and are of better quality 

 than Marie Baumann. So, early in the year, he 



