^ misnamed perpetual roses. My sugges- ^ 



tion I know was sweeping, but remember 

 the wonder-roses you have to replace them that 

 will give you color in your rose gardens, and an 

 abundance of blooms to cut, until freezing 

 weather. Why, I saw at least a hundred Baron de 

 Bounstetten rose- plants, in a bed, July 15th, and 

 not a rose, noi a bud to be seen and the foliage 

 already dreary and afflicted. Think of the waste 

 of space, of care, of nourishment these hybrid- 

 perpetuals devour, without return! 



I would forgive a rose for not blooming after its 

 prescribed season, if its foliage is fine and beauti- 

 ful, but not otherwise. A word about the Killar- 

 ney roses. My experience has been, unless they 

 are given absorbing attention you cannot keep 

 them free from mildew, and, what is more, they 

 will start every bush near them that is in the least 

 prone to mildew. Grown under glass mildew and 

 black-spot can be controlled but not in the open 

 garden. 



George Dickson, a beautiful and desirable 

 rose, so frequently quoted as a hybrid tea, is 

 now I see placed in the hybrid-perpetual class by 

 several growers and this is where it belongs. For 



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