This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Referring to the florists' establishment of Miller & Hunt, of Chicago, Mr. E. Sanders remarks, in the Prairie Farmer: "A fine' little rose for bedding and cemetery work, pure white and always in flower, dwarf and pretty, called Mille Annie Marie de Montraval (a most unfortunate name, and Frenchy), that we think is well worth extensive trial. Such kinds as Niphetos, Cornelia Cook, Duchess of Edinburgh, and Perle des Jardins (the crack roses of the day) are grown in immense quantities, while the total number catalogued is something like two hundred kinds.
 
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