ROSES 



class them as really fragrant. As a rule, a red (especially 

 a dark red or crimson) rose is sweet-scented, and this we 

 find to be the case with Fisher Holmes, Hugh Dickson, 

 Chateau de Clos Vougeot, A. K. Williams, Liberty, 

 Richmond, Avoca, Alfred Colomb, Charles Lefebvre, 

 C. J. Grahame, Commandant Felix Faure, and Duke of 

 Edinburgh. These are twelve richly coloured roses with 

 pronounced fragrance, but I should not like to recom- 

 mend them all to the home gardener for garden display. 

 Avoca, Commandant F. Faure, Duke of Edinburgh, 

 Charles Lefebvre, A. Colomb, and A. K. Williams will give 

 scarcely any blooms after the summer display. Rich- 

 mond is especially good in autumn ; Liberty is good, 

 Hugh Dickson, Chateau de Clos Vougeot, Fisher Holmes, 

 and C. J. Grahame are fairly good. 



Among fragrant roses of other shades are Augustine 

 Guinoisseau, a charming little white rose, very free the 

 season through ; the old La France and Mrs. John 

 Laing, different shades of pink ; Zepherin Drouhin, 

 the thornless rose, a vigorous variety that makes a 

 fair-sized bush, or may be trained against a 6-foot 

 fence, and the giant pink Conrad F. Meyer, one of 

 the sweetest roses grown. I have a big bush of this, 

 8 feet or 10 feet high, and as much through. That old white 

 climbing rose, Bennett's Seedling, which is smothered in 

 small blossoms in July and, alas ! in July only has a 

 very pronounced musky scent which some find pleasant 

 and some do not. Mme. Isaac Pereire, an old and 



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