Pernet-Ducher (to whom we are indebted for the Per- 

 netianas) and who won the gold medal, you remember, for 

 Jean C. N. Fore^ier, showed a splendid rose called Mrs. 

 Farmer. Jean C. N. Fore^ier, you will recall, is rather a 

 bushy plant and a vigorous one, its buds are finely formed 

 and a delightful vivid pink, touched with a suggestion of 

 yellow. Its perfume is that of a tea rose. Mrs. Farmer is very 

 vigorous and of a spready habit. Her foliage is bronzy-green, 

 and the large blooms are a fascinating Indian Yellow. The 

 underside of her petals are a rosy apricot. You can imagine 

 how charming this combination is. The firm of Dobbie were 

 awarded the Premier Certificate for Argyll a climbing hybrid- 

 tea, having large white blooms. Argyll's parents are Caroline 

 Te^out and Marquis de Sinety. Need I say more? 



The Second Certificate went to Guillot for Mme. Ray- 

 mond Chevalier-Appert, a hybrid of General McArthur by 

 Richmond. Mme. Appert is a free flowering hybrid-tea 

 having the large and much desired very long buds. Her 

 blooms are a brilliant red. 



Alexander Dickson obtained the Third Certificate for 

 K. of K. (Kitchener of Khartoum) a rose not unlike Red 

 Letter Day. This is the rose I wrote you very fully about. It is a 

 vivid crimson, but in^ead of being single like Red Letter Day 

 it is semi-double with larger petals, and I am told it flowers 

 very freely. 



There were several intere^ing roses shown, one in par- 

 ticular by Schwartz of Lyons called Mme. Andrew Schwartz. 

 It is yellow and has very dark glossy green foliage. Another 

 rose of Alexander Dickson was Mrs. J. Searle. It has very 

 large pink blooms and received a great deal of attention, 

 as did the hybrid-tea La France Victorieuse which is exceed- 



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