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DEAR MRS. HARDE: 



I promised to write you about the roses 

 I saw at the meeting of the National Horticultural Society 

 of France, held at Bagatelle in June. There were not nearly 

 as many roses shown as in previous years. In accordance 

 with the custom the plants which are to be judged were sent 

 either in the Autumn of Nineteen-seventeen or Spring of 

 Nineteen-eighteen, a time that was mo^t difficult for all of 

 us. The new varieties of roses which were sent this Spring 

 by the French, English and Americans, will be judged next 

 year. Howard and Smith of Los Angeles sent several new 

 varieties of apparently very ^rong plants having orange and 

 yellow blossoms, I am sorry I have forgotten their names. 

 Dobbie showed Golden Pirrie a new bush rose which is an 

 off-shoot of Lady Pirrie. 



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