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House & Carden 
Jonkheer J. L. Mock, an old favorite. 
The flowers are deep imperial pink, 
silvery white on the outside 
Perpetual, according to the habit of bloom 
which it develops. But it does not matter par¬ 
ticularly to the ordinary rose grower that there 
are over four thousand species of the genus in 
Europe and Western Asia alone! This knowl¬ 
edge will help little in selecting the kinds 
which the garden should have. 
When They Bloom 
The first roses to bloom are those of the 
Hybrid Perpetual class—the “June” roses— 
which begin usually about the 5th of June and 
continue for a month. The Teas and Hybrid 
Teas begin later, somewhere about the 15th, 
and carry their first flower production until the 
last week of July. Then they rest a bit, though 
producing fugitive blooms here and there, until 
about the end of August, when they start in 
once more and continue until frost stops them. 
This leaves an interval between the 25th day 
of July and the 30th of August, without any 
definite large supply of roses—which is where 
two other classes come in, the Bengal and the 
Polyantha. The latter are clustered masses 
of small flowers, usually, and tire bushes are 
not large in most of the varieties. Hence they 
should be massed in beds of just the one kind, 
rather than interspersed with plants of the 
other groups. Both bloom “on and off” all the 
season through. 
The number of plants of each class which 
a rose garden shall have must of course be 
determined by the size of the garden; but a 
fair proportion, according to the generosity of 
bloom, is two Hybrid Teas, one Bengal, one 
Polyantha, and one Tea to each Hybrid Per¬ 
petual; or five Hybrid Teas to one Hybrid 
Perpetual—this providing, of course, that you 
are willing to give the care which the need 
for protection demands. It is not, after all, 
an arduous matter; and as practically all roses 
are better for being mulched with leaves, even 
though they are hardy, it need not be con¬ 
sidered anything more than the routine work. 
Personal preferences in roses are as per- 
Los Angeles, one of the newer Hybrid 
Teas. Very large blooms, flame pink 
tinged with coral and gold 
Among the strong colored Hybrid 
Teas, Miss Cynthia Forde stands 
forth prominently. Deep rose color 
sonal as preferences generally, and sometimes 
as unaccountable. So it is a risky matter to 
say that this or that variety is the best; people 
ought never to say more than that it is the 
best for them. But, for the guidance of those 
who know nothing about roses, it is perhaps 
allowable to emphasize the beauties of one’s 
own favorites, even at the risk of leaving out 
certain roses that are highly regarded by 
rosarians, and generally popular. 
Some Good Hybrid Perpetuals 
Of the Hybrid Perpetuals there are Baron 
de Bonstetton, General Jacqueminot and 
Prince Camille de Rohan among the deep and 
velvety reds—the most fragrant roses are gen¬ 
erally found in the reds—and it is hard to 
choose between them. Prince de Rohan is 
supposed to be the darkest rose in existence, 
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The moss roses show an odd mossy growth 
on their stems. They deserve a place in 
every real rose garden 
In every respect save its pure white color, 
White Killarney is identical with its popu¬ 
lar parent 
Purity is of the Wichuraiana type, a clear 
white with yellow stamens which show when 
the petals expand 
