ROSA PROVINCIALIS, var. VARIEGATA 
allowed die same grace. No doubt many of the old Roses were not 
worth either growing or keeping, and their disappearance was the 
best thing that could have happened. The raisers of new Roses are 
numbered by the score ; every country, including our own, pours forth 
novelties in bewildering profusion ; but only a small proportion of the 
new-comers are worth perpetuating. It is true they nearly all produce 
a second crop of flowers, but as often as not the second crop consists 
of a few inferior blossoms. Moreover, a good show of autumn bloom 
is wholly dependent upon favourable conditions of weather. It is not 
intended to disparage the advantage of a double flowering season, for 
an autumn crop of good flowers is certainly a thing greatly to be 
desired ; these remarks are simply by way of protest against discarding 
a really good Rose solely because it does not bloom twice, and of 
regret that the process of elimination which began some sixty years 
ago was not carried out with more discrimination. 
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