This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
This grand rose for the florists, recently figured in our columns, has been sold by M. Deegen, the introducer, for 1,000 marks, or about $400 - a large figure in Europe. With the purchase, however, its new owner has thought proper to give it a new name - Furs-stine Leontine Furstenberg. As Mr. Deegen frankly stated that it was not a new rose with him, but one that had probably been named though now unknown, his idea of calling it " Nameless Beauty" (Namenlose Schone), was a happy conceit. It is just as good a name as if it had a name, and the fact that he admits it was " nameless," does not warrant the giving it a name. When it comes on trial among American florists, we fancy it is the new-fangled name in classic Dutch that will be nameless, and the '* Nameless Beauty " will prevail.
 
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