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sorts for any or all to grow. Therefore, the lists 

 herein given consist of one dozen each of the four 

 recognized standards of color ; roses that the author 

 has either grown in his own garden or closely 

 studied in the gardens of others, and believed by 

 him to be the best of those commonly for sale 

 throughout California. They are listed alphabet- 

 ically; no preferences shown. The letters following 

 the names indicate the class to which each belongs, 

 thus : T., tea ; H. T., hybrid tea ; H. P., hybrid per- 

 petual ; B. or C., Bengal or China ; N., noisette ; Poly., 

 polyantha. 



WHITES 



The White La France, properly Augustine Gui- 

 noisseau, is a nearly white hybrid tea, carrying a 

 slight tint of fawn color. The latest first-class white, 

 the finest of all, is Frau Karl Druschki, H. P. Ivory, 

 a tea, is pure white and therein somewhat belies its 

 name, for Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, H. P., is the 

 best ivory-white. Mabel Morrison, H. P., is a fine 

 old rose of snow-white, sometimes faintly tinged 

 with pink. Molly Sharman-Crawford, H. T., is one 

 of the newer roses which proves pure white at all 

 times, and this is likewise true of Niphetos, a tea 

 rose, doing well in shaded positions. Perle von 

 Godesburg, H. T., is creamy white, tinted with yel- 

 low, in all other ways closely resembling the Kais- 

 erin. The Bride, a pure white tea, is of somewhat 

 weakly habit except under ideal conditions, and will 

 thrive in partial shade. The Queen is another pure 

 white tea and more robust than The Bride, as a 

 queen should be. White Killarney, H. T., a pure 

 white sport from Killarney, is equally as good as 

 its distinguished parent. White Maman Cochet, T., 

 is always suffused with pink in the outer petals. 



