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As in the case of all the rest of this book, I am 

 not writing for the professional who knows much 

 more than I, but for other garden lovers and strug- 

 gUng amateurs like myself whom I hope to help a 

 httle by what I have found out by my own personal 

 association with the flowers. The names of roses 

 which I give are those which I have grown success- 

 fully and found beautiful. 



The hybrid perpetuals are hardy in any reason- 

 able latitude and need no protection whatever. 



The hybrid teas which I shall mention we have 

 managed to save through our severe winters by straw 

 covering, sheath-gown style, permitting the air to 

 circulate about the limbs. 



Of the hybrid teas, there are Betty (a relative of 

 the Killamey), which is copper and rose; Joseph 

 Hill, salmon gold and pink; the scarlet Richmond, 

 so popular as a cut flower ; Peggy, a yellow with red- 

 dish blush; Queen Beatrice, a wonderful pink, and 

 a rose for the control of which one rosarian paid 

 thirty thousand dollars; Dean Hole, a salmon shaded 

 with carmine; Virginia B,. Coxe, one of the best 

 crimsons ; an entire set of the Cochet roses ; Etoile ' 

 de France, crimson; Franz Deegan, a rich orange; 

 La France, which of course everyone knows; the 



