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flower, and before Midsummer Day has dawned 

 will probably have given a few blooms. These 

 are huge in dimension and delicious in colour. 

 If one knows the old cabbage rose, some idea 

 may be obtained of Conrad F. Meyer. There is 

 a suspicion of coarseness in the big flaunting pink- 

 coloured flowers, but no hybrid is sweeter. It is 

 amongst the most fragrant of flowers, and in the 

 enjoyment of its rich incense we forget the spines 

 and great thick petals. Climbing Mrs. W. J. 

 Grant, salmon pink ; the beautiful climbing form 

 of Kaiserin Augusta Victoria ; Gloire Lyonnaise, 

 lemon-coloured ; Gruss an Teplitz, crimson, and 

 as sweet a rose in scent as the garden can boast 

 of; Coupe d'Hdbd, pink, the famous variety as 

 white as a snowdrift ; Madame Plantier, Cheshunt 

 Hybrid, red ; Euphrosyne, pink ; Heine Marie 

 Henriette, red ; Leuchstern, white and pink ; Heine 

 Olga de Wurtemburg, also red, but a different 

 shade ; Pink Rover, soft rose ; the rich red Ard's 

 Rover, and the intense crimson-coloured Bardou 

 Job. But one rose, reserved for the last in the 

 list for special mention, does not receive its due 

 meed of praise — Madame Alfred Carriere ; it is a 

 flower to gather for filling bowls in the house, 

 and the buds open early in summer, late in the 



