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^ Although according to the old saw, " as the 

 days grow longer the cold grows stronger," each 

 day that sees the sun depart more slothfuUy than 

 its predecessor sees also the approach of the gentle 

 spirit of Spring and we who have garnered and 

 reaped and improved await the call of the joyous 

 vernal season to "Welcome the flowers to our green 

 world, translating into smiles which all can 

 underhand the fir^t tidings, and the fir^ my^eri- 

 ous kisses of the Sun." 



^ Spring! I hope no Spring will see any garden 

 lacking its roses, such roses as Lady Alice Stanley 

 — so sweet and fair! 



^ Lady Alice, you are not new, not old but without 

 a doubt one of the mo^ completely desirable hybrid 

 teas of the rose world today. What are your good 

 qualities pray? 



^ I know many amateurs who would reply that 

 you possess every quality a good rose should have, 

 perfume, color, that your under petals are a fine 

 carmine-rose and your inner-petals are silver-pink, 

 that your petalage is enormous, that you are per- 

 haps one of the faired roses we grow in our gardens. 



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