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summer, and throughout the autumn. Many are 

 the roses that may be cut long-stalked for free 

 arrangement in winter, but early in June there 

 is only this one good rose that can be so used. 

 Madame Alfred Carriere, classed as a hybrid 

 Noisette, has large pale leaves of the tea-rose char- 

 acter, and large loose flowers of a low-toned warm 

 white — capital to gather in the hand and put 

 straight in water without elaborate arrangement. 

 It seems to care little where it is planted — in 

 town or country, but in the free, fresh, life- 

 giving air of the country the flowers are purer and 

 more abundant. 



When writing of the rose one's thoughts revert 

 to the Royal Gardens, Kew, which are the centre 

 of botanical research in this country, and fair to 

 look upon at all seasons of the year. But in rose 

 time it is a pure delight to the rose lover to walk 

 through this beautiful garden, and see there the 

 opportunities that exist for bringing the rose into 

 greater prominence, making it take its share, not 

 only in adorning a few beds or a border, but in the 

 woodland, or fringe of copse, and in brave masses 

 on the lawn. There may be seen the exquisite 

 Una, raised by Messrs. Paul and Son of Cheshunt ; 

 Electra, and many another rose which only reveals 



