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line offered on the markets, if it has merit to recommend it, is eagerly 

 bought, so there is nothing to bind us down to the stereotyped and 

 conventional. But the very fact of its being easy to launch first- 

 class novelties makes it almost impossible to profitably market 

 lines which do not come up to established standards. 



As existing types of what the market really wants we will mention 

 just a few varieties in different colours : Frau Karl Druschki 

 and Kaiserin Augusta Victoria (whites) ; Killarney, Mde. C. 

 Testout, Mrs. J. Laing (pinks) ; Liberty, J. B. Clark, Richmond 

 (reds) ; Mde. E. Herriot, Los Angeles (coral and yellow) ; Prince 

 de Bulgarie (flesh) ; Golden Ophelia (yellow). Old standard 

 varieties such as Marechal Niel, Niphetos, Catherine Mermet, 

 La France, and Perle des Jardins are, even now, not to be despised. 

 Personally, we do not think their course is yet half finished, for 

 there is yet much virtue left in them. Who, for instance, is bold 

 enough to foretell the time when Marechal Niel and La France shall 

 be naught but memories ? It may possibly be that our own mounting 

 years have endeared some of these old varieties to us, and that 

 we may look upon them with a certain bias in their favour, but 

 calm consideration convinces us that notwithstanding the advent 

 of so much that is good among the new, these sterling varieties of 

 last century possess in themselves so many elements of value 

 that the greatest novelties lacking them would find it difficult 

 to achieve popularity. 



When the roses have been cut and marketed, the plants still call 

 for special treatment, for neglect at this time might well ruin their 

 constitution and detract considerably from their future value. 

 They should at once be removed to the temperate house, where 

 the thermometer will register a mean of 55 degrees Fahrenheit, 

 given a slight rest, and then allowed to start a new growth at their 

 own pace to furnish another crop of blooms. Although the season 

 will by now be more favourable to them, it must not be expected 

 that this second crop will be quite up to the standard of the first, 

 but assisted by weak applications of liquid manure, they may yet 

 be of really good quality and saleable at reasonable prices. They 

 may make a very useful supplement to those now in bloom in the 

 forcing house, and will come just at a time when the demand is 

 increasing, probably in March. After the second crop has been 



