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but not many of them, owing to its extreme youth. 

 It is a most beautiful rose. Others of surpassing 

 beauty which have been flowering are Caroline 

 Testout and White Lady. But among roses one 

 is lost, and for my own part I really do not know 

 whether I prefer these to others, such as Captain 

 Christy, La France, Grace Darling, Marie van 

 Houtte, Margaret Dickson, Kaiserin Augusta, 

 Victoria L'Ideal, Marechal Niel, and many more 

 of equally faultless tint and form. Among the 

 dark ones, too, can such rich beauty as Reynold's 

 Hole and La Rosiere, alias Prince Camille de 

 Rohan, be surpassed? They are all flowering, 

 along with many others, and each one, as one con- 

 templates it, seems the best. 



The Spanish iris have been very fine, taller, and 

 bearing much larger flowers than usual. 



All the summer flowers are coming on rapidly 

 with the succession of plentiful rain and generous 

 sunshine they have had and their vigorous growth 

 has filled the beds to repletion. A flower I rather 

 regret not having sown is Calliopsis, or Coreopsis. 

 I do not know the derivation of these two names, 

 but I take them to be equivalents and one a cor- 

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