ingly beautiful and has immensely large, soft pink blooms. 

 Pernet-Ducher showed a lovely Pernetiana which he has 

 named Souvenir de Claudius Pernet. It has large clear 53 

 blossoms sugge^ing a Rayon d' Or. It, also has the long bud. 



Then there was a new rose, a radiant orange yellow called 

 BenedicHio Seguin. It is very free flowering and has the shiny 

 bronzy-green foliage you admire so much. 



I fancy the way things are now that it will be perhaps 

 several years before the nurseries in America will be supplying 

 any or all of these fine roses, as it seems the new horticultural 

 laws they have enacTted make it impossible to export roses 

 as they used to. It will please you to know that whil^ at Aix 

 I met an English woman, one of your subscribers, who was 

 doing Red Cross work. She showed me with much pride her 

 copy of Our Garden Journal (I think the December) telling 

 me she had read it so often to her English boys, as she called 

 them, that she knew it quite by heart from cover to cover! 



When I told her of our friendship and that I was about 

 to write you all the news of The Bagatelle Show, she made 

 me promise to write you about her reading your Journal to 

 her English boys — it seems it made them homesick. You 

 had n't intended this — had you? 



Mathilde Ames leroux 



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