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and its larger round, full blooms ^ill lovelier, and 

 it is the long-^tem cutting type. Yellow rose novel- 

 ties are always more welcome it seems to me than 

 those of any other color. 



^ Among new American roses Columbia deserves 

 a place and should be in every rose garden. It is a 

 hybrid-tea of unusual merit, having ^urdy, long 

 ^ems, a rather full petalage, imposing buds, the 

 delightfully sweet scent so highly prized, and it is 

 a lasting, out-of-doors pink that resembles Caro- 

 line Testout. I need say no more, except that 

 Columbia is hardy and a decided acquisition to 

 the Rose World. This is not surprising since it has 

 Ophelia and Mrs. George Shawyer for its parents. 

 ^ Columbia's twin si^er Rose Premier, another new 

 American hybrid-tea introduced by E. G. Hill la^ 

 year, is a regal rose, ^rikingly like Mrs. Charles 

 Russell in form, color and fragrance, and ju^t as 

 enduring as a cut flower. It has been said that Rose 

 Premier is even superior to Mrs. Charles Russell, 

 but I can not agree to this until Rose Premier has 

 been in our gardens a little longer. 

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