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attributes which go to form a perfect rose. It 

 is an ideal rose in form, color, fragrance, and 

 foliage when well grown, perhaps not quite as 

 free blooming as one might wish, and possibly 

 more satisfactory as a budded plant than when 

 grown on its own roots. I know of no rose 

 more rose-like in its large, full, vermilion-crimson 

 flower, its full, delicious perfume, its red-thorned 

 shoots, and free, lustrous foliage. 



But some like the brunettes and some the 

 blondes. Both are beautiful, unless it be the 

 type which loses its color with the first hot sun. 

 Of course, there are many species which are not 

 sufficiently hardy for the garden ; but there still 

 remain enough to puzzle any one to choose from. 

 Some one has said that roses in a garden are 

 preferable to a garden of roses, the latter at times 

 affording little poetry or pleasure compared with 

 a few roses here and there in a garden. An ad- 

 mirable plan, I think, is to plant enough of good 

 forms and colors in the flower-borders ; of Per- 

 sians in the shrubberies ; of climbers on the walls 

 and pillars and trellises, and of all desirable 

 hardy kinds in the kitchen-garden to cut from ; 

 and ever, and still ever, when wet with morning 

 dew 



Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, 

 Young June is still a-flying. 



