GARDENS OF ROSES 



its celebrated offspring has seen more of the world 

 and the limelight. 



The pink Maman Cochet, like those closely allied 

 to it of red, white, or yellow, is a remarkably hardy 

 tea rose. Its flowers are very beautiful, and the bush 

 has the advantage of freedom from mildew and other 

 evils that sometimes torment ever-blooming roses of 

 less hardy natures. 



Souvenir d'un ami has more than its share of spicy 

 tea scent, and its large, globular flowers of bright rose 

 are attractively tinted with carmine. It is particularly 

 well adapted to life in the open and grows vigorously. 



The Duchesse de Brabant, while not so much seen 

 as many others of its class, is still charming to place 

 where blooms of bright rose pink are desired. 



The old bon silene, with its roses of exquisite 

 form and delicate rose-pink color, is still popular in 

 modern gardens, although it is much less conspicuous 

 than in those of older fame, where the new and multi- 

 tudinous varieties of roses had not entered. 



While red and pink roses are plentiful in the garden, 

 the white ones are in truth a necessity, since they keep 

 its members in harmony. White roses, with shadings 

 of yellow, pink, or buff, are particularly attractive 

 among the tea-scented class, which in a way seems 

 to desire to keep away from the more pronounced 

 colors of the hybrid perpetual and even the hybrid 

 teas. 



The bride, which requires no description, so uni- 

 versally known has it become, often shows in the garden 

 a more decided shade of pink on its white petals than 



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