GARDENS OF ROSES 



My Maryland is one of the new hybrid tea roses 

 which has proved wholly successful both as an in- 

 habitant of the garden and for forcing during the 

 winter. Its flowers are not unusually large, but very 

 fragrant, and of a clear, fine pink, paling somewhat 

 toward their outer margins. 



The La France, with its silvery pink recurved 

 petals, is likewise invariably greeted with admiration 

 by all. It blooms freely in the open garden. Although 

 it would seem that the pink La France should suffice 

 for the most exacting, it has been largely used to 

 produce other roses similar to it in general character- 

 istics, yet different in color. There is now in the group 

 a red, a white, and a yellow La France, and even one 

 that is distinctly striped. They are all hardy and 

 almost unexcelled for general planting. 



Madame Abel Chatenay shows the same charming 

 tendency to recurve its petals as La France, and is, 

 indeed, as it unfolds, a study in color. From apricot 

 pink it passes swiftly to delicate shades of ivory rose. 

 When half blown it is more attractive in form than 

 when fully developed. 



Nor should the rose garden be without Madame 

 Caroline Testout, a celebrated rose of highest stand- 

 ing. From the deeply toned center of its flowers, 

 the petals fade outward to rose color with satin sheen. 

 Lady Ashtown is regarded by many rosarians as an 

 improvement on Caroline Testout. 



The Magnafrano roses are very double, deep rich 

 pink, and exquisitely fragrant. Usually several of 

 them can be picked from the bush. 



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