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loosely, wrapping them round with bracken or straw, 

 and tying lightly with string. One must not forget that 

 coddling is bad for roses of any sort, and this method 

 need only be adopted in districts where experience has 

 shown that a good deal of protection is really essential. 



Hybrid Tea roses, as one would naturally expect, 

 vary considerably in vigour and in manner of growth. 

 Some are inclined to make small, spreading bushes like 

 a true Tea rose, or form strong upright shoots like a 

 Hybrid Perpetual ; others develop into more or less 

 symmetrical, rounded bushes ; while some have the 

 awkward habit of putting all their energy into the pro- 

 duction of one chief shoot. In pruning, therefore, the 

 treatment of each plant should be strictly individual, 

 but this will be simple once the principles enunciated in 

 another chapter are grasped. Those having one strong 

 shoot and other small ones must be hard pruned ; those 

 that spread and form rather weakly growths ought to 

 be cut back to buds that point upwards, and be well 

 thinned out. 



Some of the Hybrid Teas are so vigorous as to form 

 climbing roses, and they are extremely delightful for 

 sunny walls and fences. They are certainly not so 

 accommodating or so simple of treatment as the Dorothy 

 Perkins and Crimson Rambler types, yet offering no 

 serious difficulties to the enthusiastic amateur. They 

 have a great advantage over the true Ramblers in that 

 they produce shapely buds and blooms in contrast to 

 the big, showy bunches of single or semi-double blos- 

 som of the latter, and they continue to flower through- 



