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the lighter colors were in greater number, Burns might 
never have sang— 
My love is like a red, red Rose 
That early blooms in June. 
but chosen another color more typical of his modest 
Highland lassie. The climate and soil of England is 
especially suited to the Hybrid Perpetuals, and nowhere 
do they attain finer perfection. The grounds of Paul, of 
Waltham, Smith, of Worscester, Dicksons, of Chester, or 
Cranston, of Hereford, are all literal forests of these 
Roses. But the Tea Rose, the pet of every lady from the 
Ohio to the Gulf, are grown only in limited quantity, the 
dampness of their Summers and lack of bright sunshine 
not being conducive to their proper development. With 
us in the South the Hybrid Perpetuals will never be 
popular on account of their periodic blooming. We, 
however, enjoy them when they bloom, just as we would 
a beautiful opera, although we might hear daily all the 
same airs played upon a piano. Owing to the fact that 
the climate of the Southern States is particularly mild, 
and in the more Southern portion or Gulf States vegeta- 
tion goes on unchecked from year to year where the 
tenderest of the rose family can flourish with impunity 
from the blizards and ice storms of the North. No Roses 
other than the Tea and Everblooming varieties will ever 
be favorites among us for their blossoms and fragrance; 
like the poor, they are with us always. We have not the 
patience in a land of perpetual sunshine to await the 
blooming of the tardy Remontans, without the inter- 
vening seasons were brightened by the blooming of our 
Teas. Of course the Remontan class will ever have a 
noble exponant of their charms in all Southern gardens 
in the varieties of Jacqueminot, Mabel Morrison, Paul 
