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Malmaison ? And are these in turn as delicious 

 as the little violet-scented white Banksia or the 

 pungent breath of the white-clustered multiflora? 

 Who shall choose between Marshall P. Wilder, 

 Marie Beaumann, and Alfred Colomb? And 

 which is the more bewitching, Madame Gabriel 

 Luizet in her dress of pink Chambray, or Mabel 

 Morrison in her cool white lawn? Which do 

 you prefer, the old-fashioned climbers smothered 

 in rosy bloom, or the mass of the Persian's 

 beaten gold? Can you decide between a pink 

 Bon Silene and a moss-rose wet with dew ? 

 Would you leave out the pasonia-flowered Paul 

 Neyron for Madame the Countess of Serenye? 

 And which is the more desirable in autumn, the 

 colored hips of the dog-rose or the late-blossom- 

 ing Marguerite de St. Amande? Then the 

 white Rosa rugosa, the sweet-brier, the little 

 Pacquerettes, the Noisettes, the Ayrshires, the 

 Bourbons, the Chinas, the Boursaults, the dam- 

 asks, the Provence, the Scotch, and the hosts of 

 hybrids. 



Which is my favorite in the hardy rose-gar- 

 den ? I have tried for many years to decide, 

 and if pressed hard for an answer I think I 

 should name Marie Rady, although not a few of 

 the varieties I have specified and some I have 

 not mentioned approach it very closely in the 



