21 JULY 1928, Page 14
THE BEST ROSE.
The best of all the new roses—to my mind, eyes, and nose— is Dame Edith Helen, a delicious pink with all the rose virtues in high measure. If it were an apple we should call it " a good keeper." An individual flower will last a good fortnight. It is delicate enough to look upon, but has an inordinate number of petals, as many as a cool hundred to a bud. It holds its head up well and is " a good doer " as well as keeper. But tl:e supreme virtue is the scent. Not the old cabbage, the ad La France, or the sweetest of the dark reds, Etoile de Hollande, has quite so much scent or such an entrancing scent.
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