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full-blown flowers. I should complete the two dozen with 

 the following : Mrs. John Laing, pink, and Hugh Dickson, 

 red (both Hybrid Perpetuals), the latter a vigorous Rose 

 that ought really to be trained on a fence, or pillar, or 

 allowed to grow into a big bush ; Madame Antoine Mari, 

 lilac-rose and white, a perfect little Tea ; Madame Hoste, 

 a cream-coloured Tea ; Lady Roberts, orange-yellow, also 

 a Tea Rose ; and the clear yellow Pernetiana Rose, Rayon 

 d'Or. 



I am conscious that many perhaps equally good 

 varieties have been omitted from the list, and I cannot 

 resist the temptation to mention a few more particularly 

 attractive Roses. One of the best dark crimson Roses 

 I have is Louis Van Houtte ; it grows well with me, 

 though usually classed as of weak growth. Fisher 

 Holmes, an old variety, and H. E. Richardson, a new one, 

 are two other good crimson Roses. Mrs. Stewart Clark 

 is similar to Hugh Dickson in vigour of growth and size 

 of bloom, but the colour is rose- pink ; it is very showy 

 and a large bush makes a splendid display. Its faults 

 are that the flowers are scentless (a fault, alas ! that can 

 be urged against many modern Roses) and they appear 

 only in summer. Avoca is a beautiful crimson Rose, 

 fragrant, and of excellent form ; it is vigorous and may 

 be grown as a pillar, or pegged down to form a bush ; 

 it blooms scarcely at all in autumn. Commandant Felix 

 Faure is another fine Rose of dark colouring, crimson 

 with blackish shading, but it does not flower much in 

 autumn. Madame Leon Pain, silvery rose, is one of the 

 best garden varieties, vigorous and almost always in 

 bloom. Madame Melanie Soupert is charming, with 

 flowers of yellow and peach shades, but it seems to need 

 a warm position, and I have found it to be only 

 moderately free of bloom. Lady Hillingdon, with long 

 pointed blooms of orange-yellow, is best, I think, as a 

 standard and should be given a warm position. Other 

 Roses I can recommend are Lady Waterlow, pale rose, 



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