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Duchesse de Brabant. A valuable free blooming variety of a silvery pink 
color. A good bedding variety, and very fragrant. 
Etoile de France. The best and sweetest Hybrid Tea of its color; a fine up- 
right bush with deep green foliage and fine large cup shaped flowers on 
long stems; color, rich velvety crimson. 
Gruss an Teplitz. A queen among bedding varieties on account of its fine 
rich color and free blooming qualities, succeeding under ordinary condi- 
tions. Its color is rich scarlet shading to deep velvety crimson. The 
mass of color produced is simply wonderful and the foliage also is beau- 
tiful, all the young growth being a bronzy plum color. Very fragrant. 
Golden Gate. A strong growing variety; flowers light creamy yellow edged 
with pink. 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. One of the most beautiful of all for garden cul- 
ture; a strong healthy grower and a continuous bloomer, elegant point- 
ed buds, large full and very double flowers, very fragrant; color, creamy 
white. 
Killarney. This is the most popular ever blooming Rose now before the 
public; the flowers are of large size with thick petals of great sub- 
stance and delightful fragrance and of a beautiful shade of deep shining 
shell-pink. The plants make strong upright bushes with deep bronzy 
green foliage. 
Mad. Absl Chatenay. This grand new perpetual blooming variety is of 
great beauty; the flowers are very full and double; color, carmine rose 
shaded salmon. 
My Maryland. A new American variety with flowers of a beautiful salmon- 
pink color and very fragrant; the growth is strong and vigorous with 
rich healthy foliage. 
P-rle des Jardins. Rich yellow; beautiful large flowers of 
perfect form. The most popular yellow Rose for winter 
blooming. 
The Bride. A strong growing, free flowering variety, for 
pot culture or bedding. 
Maman Cochet. A very strong growing variety, producing 
flowers in the greatest profusion; color, deep rose pink, 
inner side of jietals silvery rose, very double. 
White Maman Cochet. Idential with the preceding, except 
Maman Cochet. in color. An ideal bedding variety. 
Richmond. The best general purposered Rose in cultivation; fine shaped 
buds; color, rich scarlet-crimson. 
White Killarney. Identical with Killarney in all respects except color, 
which is pure white. 
HARDY AND HYBRID PERPETUAL ROSES. 
Many of the varieties of Roses offered by firms farther south as per- 
fectly hardy are tender in this climate and almost sure to kill to the ground 
even with the best of protection, which all Roses should have in this cli- 
mate. As many of the best varieties are increased only by grafting on 
strong growing root stocks, care should be taken to have them planted 
deep, so that the part where the branches join the main stem will be 
three inches below the surface of the soil. All hardy Roses should be se- 
verely pruned before planting and also each year before the growth starts 
in the spring, removing all weak growth and cutting back all strong canes 
at least one half. We list only the varieties which are hardiest and best 
in this section and among these will be found some of the best that can 
