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ordinary amateur can make out of their discussions is that the origin of 

 the rose in question is so complicated by crossing that its first ancestors 

 cannot be definitely determined. 



It does seem fairly safe, however, to say that the tea type of rose is 

 descended from Rosa indica or chincnsis, of which an illustration of the 

 single flower may be seen in Redoute's great book, which was written just 

 one hundred years ago for the Empress Josephine. A double variety of 

 this same plant is still grown in our gardens under the name Agrippina. 

 Rosa indica odorata and an occasional admixture from the roses of the 

 R. lutca type produce the tea roses. Another class is the hybrid tea, a 

 cross between the hybrid perpetuals and the tea-scented. Viscountess 

 Folkestone is a typical hybrid-tea rose, both in its manner of growth and 

 blooming. Other hybrid-tea roses are : Souvenir du President Carnot 

 (Pernet-Ducher 1895), Killarney (A. Dickson & Sons), White Killarney 

 (F. R. Pierson Co.), and My Maryland (of American origin, J. Cook). 

 Perle des Jardins (Levet 1874) was one of the first of the race of modern 

 yellow teas. 



The next type of rose is the Noisette, a hybrid between the musk rose 

 and Rosa indica, of which the most usual representative in our garden, and 

 one of the most charming, is our old friend the white bush rose Madame 

 Plantier, and the old greenhouse rose Marechal Niel. Rosa gallica is 

 the parent of the Bourbon type of rose, of which Hermosa and Coupe 

 d'Hebe are representatives. The old cabbage rose is Rosa centifoUa, of 

 which a familiar variety is the moss rose in all its various forms, a variety 

 which has more thorns, an increased fuzziness of the whole plant, and all 

 takes on the familiar appearance so beloved of milliners and valentine- 

 makers. 



The variegated damask rose, a form of our old friend the York and 

 Lancaster rose, is one of its many charming varieties, ending once and for 

 all the Wars of the Roses by wearing blossoms of two colors on one bush. 

 Here we often see the deep red of the damask rose, then a blossom white, 

 and then a flower striped and flaked with pink and white, so that the whole 

 plant gives in June an impression of gayety and old-fashioned festivity to 

 the garden which no other rose quite equals. 



The hybrid perpetual or remontant is supposed to number among its 

 parents the damask and the cabbage or hundred-leaved rose; and here 

 come our old friends General Jacqueminot, introduced by Roussel in 1854, 

 and Uldich Brunner, by Levet in 1882. It is only fair to say that the reason 

 why the hybrid perpetual rose is today rather a step-child in the rose 

 garden is because, while in the month of June no rose can compare with it, 

 later in the year its ungainly stalks, devoid of buds, are not to be compared 

 with the hybrid-tea roses. We are now all growing hybrid-teas because 

 they will bloom for us not only in June, though perhaps not quite so 

 luxuriantly as the hybrid perpetuals, but also because they will bloom again 

 from September until frost, if we give them a few weeks rest and extra 



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