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found in flower from early summer until late autumn, 

 and the following list is so arranged, starting with 

 the earlier flowering varieties. 



Gerbe Eose, Alberic Barbier, Gardenia, Jersey 

 Beauty, Euby Queen, Joseph Lamy, Fran9ois 

 Juranville, Fran9ois Guillot, Leontine Gervaise, 

 Lady Godiva, White Dorothy, Minnehaha, and 

 Dorothy Perkins and the type (Wichuraiana) whose 

 fragrant white flowers in a mild season may be 

 picked right up to Christmas. 



The following varieties are not true Wichuraianas, 

 but are often classed as such in catalogues, and are 

 useful for the same purposes: Evangeline, Hiawatha, 

 Delight and Tausendschon. 



Autumnal Flowering or Perpetual Eoses 



The Hybrid Perpetual Bose. — This wonderful 

 group seems to have originated from several sources ; 

 indeed, it may no doubt be said with truth that 

 certain strains of almost all other cultivated Eoses 

 have now been incorporated, by accident or design, 

 into some of the members of this wide and varied 

 class. It seems to me vain to try and trace the 

 parentage of the most celebrated varieties. The 

 pedigrees of most of them were absolutely unknown 

 even to the raisers, since systematic hybridising and 

 careful choice of seed-parents was not practised by 

 the French Eosarians who issued our most noted 

 strains. Seeds were sown in immense quantities, 

 and the cross fertilisation effected by insects or 

 other agencies was relied on to produce the variations 

 which ensued. 



