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pollen of ‘Soleil d’Or.’ Following on the introduction of so many 
excellent varieties of an earlier date, M. Pernet-Ducher has earned by his 
later crosses a distinction which entitles him to the congratulation of all 
lovers of roses. 
The Hybrid Tea roses, which at the present time stand second to none 
in general estimation as garden roses, are as a class of comparatively 
recent introduction, the series having commenced with ‘ La France’ and 
‘Captain Christy,’ introduced by Guillot and Lacharme in 1867 and 1873 
respectively. Ina general way it may be said that they are the results of 
crosses between varieties of the Hybrid Perpetual and Tea-scented classes ; 
but although we are given to understand that the earlier introductions 
were the results of direct crosses made between these two classes, more 
extended experience tends to show that in order to obtain the greatest 
percentage of successful results successive or indirect crossing must be 
employed. The origin and successive development of this most beautiful 
class of roses are exhaustively treated of in a paper read last year by M. 
Viviand-Morel of Lyons at the Rose Congress at Paris, and subsequently 
published in the Journal of the Lyons Horticultural Association. In this 
field British raisers have been eminently successful, some of the earliest 
varieties having been raised by the late Mr. Henry Bennett, who showed 
the potentialities of the cross by the introduction of a numerous series, 
including ‘Lady Mary Fitzwilliam,’ ‘Grace Darling,’ ‘ Viscountess 
Folkestone,’ and others which, although introduced some twenty years ago, 
still remain in general cultivation. ‘Lady Mary Fitzwilliam ’—itself the 
result of crossing the Tea rose ‘ Devoniensis’ and the Hybrid Perpetual 
‘Victor Verdier ’—has been largely used as a factor in obtaining new 
varieties, and we have it on record that two well-known roses, ‘ Caroline 
Testout’ and ‘Antoine Rivoire,’ were the results of crosses in which the 
pollen of ‘Lady Mary Fitzwilliam ’ was employed, the seed-bearing parent 
in the case of ‘ Caroline Testout’ being the Tea rose ‘ Madame de Tartas,’ 
and in the case of ‘ Antoine Rivoire,’ the Tea rose ‘ Dr. Grill.’ I have 
also seen it stated that ‘Madame Abel Chatenay’ was across between 
‘ Dr. Grill’ and ‘ Lady Mary Fitzwilliam’; but the raiser’s description at 
the time of its introduction gave ‘ Victor Verdier’ as the pollen-bearing 
parent. Of recent years a large number of most valuable additions to 
this class have been obtained by various raisers on similar lines, but a 
distinct break was obtained a few years ago in ‘ Gruss an Teplitz,’ alluded 
to above. As a decorative rose this variety is in the first rank, and it is to 
be hoped that it may prove a starting point for further crosses of a 
similar nature with a view to obtaining a series possessing similar 
characteristics of freedom of habit and blooming, with flowers of different 
shades of colour. Another very fine rose of recent introduction which, 
although generally classed with Hybrid Perpetuals, possesses some of the 
characteristics of the Hybrid Teas, is ‘ Frau Karl Druschki.’ This rose, 
which is probably the finest white rose for general purposes at present 
in cultivation, is stated to be a cross between the Hybrid Perpetual 
‘ Merveille de Lyon’ and the Hybrid Tea ‘ Caroline Testout.’ Some other 
noteworthy Hybrid Teas of recent introduction with whose parentage 
we are acquainted are: ‘ Earl of Warwick’ (Tea ‘The Queen’ x H.T. 
‘ Belle Siebrecht ’) ; ‘ Pharisier,’ a seedling from H.T. ‘ Belle Siebrecht’ 
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