Les demoiselles du Rosaire. Members of the Congré

gation du Rosaire^ a religions organization or sort of Sunday school association for prayer and spiritual comfort. Their spécial duties are to decorate the church, to pray bef ore the altar of the Virgin

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and to assist as monitors in the catechism. They take part in the procession of Assumption Day (cf. p. 82, 1. 20) dressed in white and wearing en sautoir (cf. p. 87, 1. 5), hanging from a blue ribbon, the medal of the Vierge du Itoaaire, to whose service and worship they are specially consecrated.

10. Rosiers à cent feuHïeUf i,e,, the bushesof the "hundred-leaved rose," the latter a stock of uncertain origin, known as a non-climbing garden rose, blooming but once a season, and therefore belonging to the class of summer and June roses. It is soraetimes known as the " cabbage rose," from its shape as a large round compact flower, and has numerous varieties, among which are the mossrose and the French or red rose.