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that your outer petals reflex and curve, your blooms 

 are very large, your petals of such unusual sub- 

 ^ance, that your flowers fade lovably on their 

 strong ^ems. And such foliage, pradtically immune 

 from blights! You are rather low growing but of 

 good form, never draggling, and you bloom con- 

 tinually until late Autumn. But you have one very 

 trivial fault, for in a heavy rain, a beating rain. 

 Lady Alice Stanley, you droop your pretty head. 

 But ^ill the fadt remains that you are unique 33 



MRS. CHARLES RUSSELL 



^ Growing in a garden under an awning of oy^er- 

 white lined with green, I saw Mrs. Charles Russell. 

 ^ What an interesting rose she is! Look into her 

 deep heart and you will find several circles of tiny, 

 crimpy ruffled petals of a deep and marvelous color 

 with a Grange light. But what is the color? 1 can 

 not answer. I don't know. It is a wonderful velvety, 

 deep, ruby-garnet-pink. This is as near as I can 

 describe it. The entire inner rose is like an inde- 

 pendent flower, the lovely guard petals are high- 

 tipped in the center and are supported, chalice-like, 



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