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has flowers double, borne in clusters, hanging 

 gracefully. The flowering season continues 

 for six weeks, and some flowers may be seen 

 until frost. This may be classed as a semi- 

 evergreen variety, since the foliage remains 

 on the stems until February and the small 

 shoots retain their leaves the whole year. 



Minnehaba (Wichuraiana and Paul Ney- 

 ron) has dark rose flowers, borne on large 

 trusses on long, stout stems. The foliage is 

 light glossy green, hardy. 



Evangeline, has flowers two inches across, 

 single, pure white. 



Lady Gay (Wichuraiana and Bardou Job) 

 experts have pronounced to be the best of 

 Mr. Walsh's hybrids. The colour is a 

 combination of cherry pink, touched with 

 vermilion, fading to pure white. It produces 

 canes twelve to fifteen feet in length in one 

 season, and so is admirably suited for 

 trellises, porches, pergolas, etc. This is a 

 fine forcing rose for Easter decoration. 



Hiawatha (Wichuraiana hybrid), is very 

 floriferous; a bright crimson single flower, the 

 base of petals white. 



Wedding Bells, a seedling from Crimson 

 Rambler, is most floriferous. Some plants 



