othj Page-Eoberts, apricot, gold aud pink ; loua Herdman, orauge- 

 saftroii and flame; Lady Pirrie, Mine. Leon Pain, Mrs. Charles E. 

 Allan, Lady Greenall, Cheerful and all the so-called yellow roses 

 that I have spoken about again and again are fascinating and 

 popular above all others because of the blending of many colors, 

 the harmony in their association, and the utter lack of monotony 

 that would be the case were they all straight yellows. That seems 

 to me to be the lure of them, the charm and interest thej have 

 for us. 



By the way, among the yellow roses to which I have just 

 referred are several varieties that are quite new and particularly 

 desirable for bedding. Mrs. Gordon Sloane, Donald MacDonald, 

 Evelyn Dauutesey, Mrs. Charles E. Allan and Mrs. Frank Bray— 

 these five are hydrid-tea roses of a high order for massing for long 

 rose-borders and parterre beds, possessing, as they all do, frag- 

 rance, excellent foliage and great i3rolificness in flower pro- 

 duction. 



There are two varieties of tea-roses I wish every Amateur 

 would grow for the genuine, unalloyed satisfaction they give; they 

 are Miss Alice de Rothschild and Mrs. S. T. Wright. The former 

 I have grown for years and years in a New England climate and 

 have never had a plant winter-killed. Miss de Eothschild is not 

 a rose easy to describe, although it is always classed as a yellow 

 and white. It has considerable yellow in its color blend; it is a 

 3^ellow that is buffy and tender and unfading. Oh, the beauty of 

 the bud and of the reflexed petals of the full-blown flower, and 

 the tea-rose fragrance, and the lasting quality of the cut flower.s 

 and the abundance of them we may cut, with fine long, firm stems, 

 slender but strong! It is an exquisite, hardy tea-rose that will 

 become a permanent member of your rose family to welcome you 

 year in and year out ; not a big rose or a striking one, but lovably 

 beautiful. Mrs. S. T. Wright is the other tea-rose that I want 

 you to have. It has all the gold and amber-chrome, pink tinted 

 loveliness of the most desirable "yellow roses," besides it has a 

 tea perfume, bronze-green foliage of good texture, and is an inde- 

 fatigable bloomer, hardy, with careful protection, even in a very 



