BEST VARIETIES WITH CHARACTERISTICS 



In list No. 3 we have also included some weak- 

 growing roses which have beautiful blooms; they 

 are not perfectly hardy and, in addition, are weak 

 growers, but are so distinct in the beauty of their 

 bloom that they should be included in any large 

 collection, particularly by a person understanding 

 their failings. As an example of these roses Joseph 

 Hill is perhaps the best known. It is a wonderful 

 flower, of distinct and beautiful coloring, with 

 nothing of its shade to compare with it, but it is 

 such a weak grower that it would be hardly right 

 to include it in list No. 2; to place it in list No. 1 

 would be doing an injustice to those who wish a 

 good all-round rose, such as list No. 1 is designed 

 to contain. Also hi list No. 3 are placed some 

 single roses which, while good bloomers and of 

 robust habit, are so much below the average in the 

 form of their blooms that they should not be in- 

 cluded in any list but No. 3. 



It has been aimed to cover, under the columns of 

 the main list, the principal points of each rose. 

 Under the greater number of headings the letters 



"A" very good, "C" fair, "X" failure, 



"B" good, "D" poor, 



are used to describe each variety. 



Under the heading "Form of Rose" the abbrevia- 

 tion "Si" indicates that the rose is single. 



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