QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S FAVOURITE ROSE.
Queon Alexandra is passionately fond of roses.. A few, weeks since, says-a .writer in the "Girl's Own Paper," I paid a hasty visit to her Majesty's own garden at Sandringham, and there I had the pleasure of. seeing her rose garden, an interesting wee plot of garden enclosed by an'exquisitely-designed iron fence,- with beds inside filled with just the simple sort of roses that everybody admires. It is only a small garden—a few square yards —not the huge area one might expect, that satisfies our'gracious Queen's admiration for roses.. • Her Majesty's rose garden, inded,'is just that modest patch which is so characteristic of our modest, gentle, and beloved Queen.' I daresay some of you—l hope allwould -like to know which is her Majesty's favourite rose. Well, it is one of the old time sorts known as Hermosa, a lovely free-flower-ing pink rose, which yields a'rich harvest of beautiful fragrant blossoms. So fond is the Queen of this rose that ■ she . causes it to be grown by thousands in huge borders near her favourite dairy, as well as in the gardens surrounding her home. So, if you want to grow .her Majesty's favourite rose,'and. at the' same time to have-an abundaiico of fragrant blossoms to cull and, decorate your boudoir or sitting-rooms from summer to autumn,' by all meansplanfc,a few. bushes of Hermosa rose m your very own gardens this autumn.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11
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234QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S FAVOURITE ROSE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 11
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