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flowers, but we shall simply renew them in kind, and 

 avoid experiments as far as possible. A hundred of 

 such bushes are all that a woman gardener, even 

 with a wide ambition, can manage either to plant, 

 suitably care for, or to gather and give away the 

 flower crop, while fifty will yield almost equal joy. 

 Of white we have Madame Plantier, Bath Moss, 

 Coquettes des Blanches, and Coquette des Alpes ; 

 pink Centifclia, the hundred-leaved Provence 

 Rose, Magna Charta, Anne de Diesbach, Paul 

 Neyron (the child of Anne de Diesbach and Victor 

 Verdier), and La Reine ; dark red Baron de 

 Bonstettin, Duke of Albany, Camille de Rohan ; 

 deep bright crimson Alfred Colomb, Jacqueminot, 

 Fischer Holmes, and Marie Bauman. Of the mosses, 

 both the common and crested. 



These roses grown outdoors of course must have 

 shorter stems, and fade and drop their petals sooner 

 than their indoor brothers. Others may have finer, 

 and the Italian garden on The Bluffs disports two 

 thousand rose trees, but these are my very own to 

 love and gather and give away; their faults, even, 

 are born of the shortcomings of the climate of my 

 own country. In short, they are my children, and 

 therefore none others can be so lovable. 



Late this afternocn a young coloured girl of a very 



