BEST VARIETIES WITH CHARACTERISTICS 



pink, the shade depending on the sunlight, being 

 deeper in bright, hot weather. In the early spring 

 and in the autumn the color of most roses with us 

 is darker than in the summer, some varieties that 

 usually have a slight yellow tint becoming almost 

 pink under frosty nights and warm days. Mainly 

 for the first reason given it is a lottery for the aver- 

 age rose grower to order new varieties; the greater 

 part will prove utter disappointments, a waste of 

 money, space, time and care, and the catalogued 

 description must be more than discounted. 



This book should guide the American purchaser 

 to order those roses which will give him the best 

 results. To secure a perfect list of such roses, we 

 have carefully tested every variety found in the 

 best of European catalogues, and in our list at the 

 end of this chapter there has been included every 

 variety which has come up to a certain standard. 

 Those which we have excluded have not proved 

 successful after a test in which all had the same 

 chance. 



SIXTEEN BEST ALL-ROUND ROSES 



In order to be of the greatest practical aid to the 

 home rose grower we have made a selection of the 

 sixteen roses which have proved by our tests to be 

 the best adapted in beauty and usefulness to outdoor 



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