no other rose ever has. ^ I would surround my 

 pink and ruby colored roses with pearly white, soft 

 pink and coral bouvardia, the be^t cutting, the 

 mo^ decorative, and quite the mo^ uncommon of 

 all greenhouse plants. Near my Marechal Niel rose, 

 in the cooled corner where it would climb high, I 

 would group my slender-hemmed, vividly intereh- 

 ing gerberas, maintaining a perfe(ft harmony be- 

 tween them and the golden Marechal Niel, and I 

 would hide the pots in which are sweet smelling 

 heliotrope trees with feathery chizanthus, and my 

 tasseled buddleias would be the background for all 

 my lilies bringing a grace of arrangement that 

 would please the moh critical. I would see that the 

 wonderful pink tassels of the new buddleia would 

 dangle near tall cold calla spathes, and 1 would 

 wreathe a strand of soft, old blue clematis, 

 around the numerous thorns of climbing pink 

 Caroline Tehout, the mo^t superbly prolific 

 greenhouse climbing rose. Caroline loves a cool 

 but sunny corner, ju^t as Marechal Niel does. To 

 hide the pot in which Caroline is planted I would 

 mass around it dwarf Elizabeth Dennison helio- 

 trope. Near Sunburh and Collette Martinette I 

 would place low-growing lantanas of creamy- 

 amber and gold with Ian tana trees at the rear. On 

 the sides, so that these golden roses would not be 

 deprived of any sun, I would grow splendid snap- 

 dragons, but only those of intermediate height, 

 and they too should have the softening grace of 

 schizanthus and freesias and ferns, maiden-hair 

 ferns. Near my dwarf Godfrey callas I would place 

 my pink, white and blue Roman hyacinths, lilies- 

 of-the-valley and pink and white fairy lilies 

 (zephyranthes) . My cyclamens would be near my 

 Hadley roses, and my lovely Chinese hibiscus 

 would be the background for my amaryllis. 



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