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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Per. Seedling of Madame Melanie Soupert X Beauty of Lyons. Named in honor of one of our most beloved American poets and his son, the Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. This matchless new comer in the rose world is of much superior and brilliant color than the gorgeously beautiful Souvenir de Catherine Breslau and Beauty of Lyons. There is no trace of wood dying back. The foliage is of a glossy bronze green, very ornamental and free from diseases. It is an early and late bloomer and hence should prove to become a rare ornament for the garden.