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an excellent rose in all respects. Annie de Diesback, Alfred Rougement and 
Baroness Rothschild are light roses, very lovely but tender and difficult to win- 
ter. John Hopper is an easy winter keeper and is a very full and handsome 
rose. White Queen, a perpetual rose, is hardy and a strong grower, and the 
rose, pure and white, is delicately lovely, but about one month is its highest 
average of production. 
Madam Laffay, Louis and Jules Margottin, Pius the 9th, Prince Albert and 
Joasine Hauet are all well-tried winter keepers and good bloomers, but their 
color is objectionable except for garden display. In a boquet that purple ting- 
ed red kills all other colors. The same objection applies to La Reine in some 
degree, but her majesty is so perfect in form, so vigorous in growth and gener- 
ous in bloom, and so hardy that, though one of the oldest Hybrids, it has never 
been supplanted by the new varieties. 
The best late blooming roses in my collection are: Ist, Salet, which mdeed 
blooms all the time. I have had it fifteen years and have scarcely ever knowna 
time between June and October that it has not had buds or flowers. 2nd, Gen. 
Washington. I have memoranda of October 12th and 20th, '79, and in the list 
of flowers gathered from the garden on those days, are Gen. Washington buds, 
and this year fine, half grown buds were killed by the frost. 35rd, Gen. Jaque- 
minot. 4th, Madame Laffay and Sidonie. 
La France was sold to me as a Hybrid Perpetual, and as such we have treated 
it for four years. It lived out two winters, appearing in the springs of °76 and 
“77 as hardy as any hybrid; but °78 and ’79 were both fatal to it. As a hybrid 
perpetual this rose is in color, form and fragrance unexcelled. But recently, 
good authorities place it in a new class called hybrid teas, and no doubt correct- 
ly. Its lack of hardiness, its fine, smooth ,foliage and true tea rose fragrance, 
point plainly to a tea ancestry. We are reluctant to yield it to this family, be- 
cause as a tea, it will be in no way especially distinguished, while as a hydrd 
perpetual it could not but take rank as the empress and queen of roses. 
We owe this new developmeat of rose hybridization to Mr. Henry Bennet, of 
Stapleford, England. He began in 1870 aseries of ingenious experiments in the 
artificial fertilization of seed-bearing roses in pots and under glass, and was re- 
warded by finding that the Hybrid Perpetuals crossed freely with the teas and 
vice versa, and in “78 he had the honor of introducing an absolutely new type of 
rose. The new Hybrid combines the best qualities of both parents—the contin- 
ual bloom and lovely color of the Teas with the rapid and robust growth of the 
Hybrid Perpetuals. La France was a chance seedling, and had been in the 
trade several years, but when the Hybrid Teas appeared, it was immediately 
classed with them. 
In a climate where these roses can be left in the open ground through the win- 
ter, they will be invaluable, but here their superior value is problematical; for 
if we must keep them in pots, their increased size will be a very serious objec- 
tion. This, however, shall not prevent our rejoicing exceedingly over these new 
and interesting roses. 
lt would be idle for me to attempt an enumeration of Tea roses. We have so 
many varieties of equal excellence as to cultivation and beauty, that one cannot 
go far amiss in making a selection. 
In the way of their cultivation the only bugbear is the winter keeping. I lose 
so large a proportion every winter, even when kept in a green house, that of 
late I have partially adopted the plan of planting alarge number of cheap young 
