GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



petuals strove to bloom in spite of being almost choked 

 to death by weeds and various grasses. The monthlies 

 had long since given up the attempt to live. 



There is something, moreover, very satisfactory 

 about the size attained by the perpetual rose bushes. 

 They do not swing their flowers well over the heads of 

 their admirers, as is true of many of the climbers, nor 

 is it necessary to get down to them as is often required 

 in the case of the ever-blooming bushes. They meet 

 those that seek them halfway, holding their blossoms 

 at a level where they can be scanned without discom- 

 fort. They are, in truth, fairly good sized shrubs laden 

 with the most wondrous flowers of all. 



Of white roses among the hybrid perpetuals, there 

 are many that vie with each other in exquisiteness of 

 outline and nearness to purity in their particular color, 

 or rather lack of color. Indeed, there is seldom seen 

 a white rose that has thrown off all color; either they 

 are slightly tinged with yellow or flushed with pink. 

 The Frau Karl Druschki (page 217) is, perhaps, the 

 most purely white of any rose. 



Margaret Dickson approaches it closely in absence of 

 color. This rose, moreover, attains an extraordinarily 

 large size, having its petals attractively reflexed. 



Madame Plantier is among the best of hardy white 

 roses, blooming almost continually. Perle des Blanches 

 is as fine a white rose as Margaret Dickson. Perfection 

 des Blanches and Coquette des Alps are both beautiful, 

 the latter being tinged with pale blush. Coquette 

 des Blanches is of medium size and blooms in clusters, 

 showing also a slight flush over its white flowers. 



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