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but for planting on the outskirts, for shrubbery, or for 

 wild garden they are most valuable. The flowers are 

 large, and freely produced in late May and June, and to 

 some considerable extent in late summer. At this season 

 they are unusually attractive, both flowers and brilliant 

 fruits adding to the gaiety of the bushes. The finest 

 crop of fruits is obtained by pruning hard each March. 



Perhaps the best way of growing Griiss an Teplitz, 

 a Hybrid Tea rose, is as a free bush (though I have seen 

 it rampant on a sunny wall, and o'ertopping the ten feet 

 high summit). In any case, it thrives splendidly when 

 not trained in any way, and it is especially valuable 

 because it comes into flower rather late, and in September 

 is at its best. The blooms are in big loose bunches, 

 chiefly on the upper part of the stems ; they are only 

 semi-double, but of vivid crimson-red colouring, and 

 most fragrant. One needs to use the pruning knife very 

 sparingly on Griiss an Teplitz ; it is only necessary, in 

 March, to cut away any old and thin weakly shoots, 

 and to shorten slightly such others as may have soft 

 or very thin ends. It thrives with me in a half-shady 

 corner, and there flowers quite freely, though it is 

 certainly worth a place in the sunshine. 



The old thornless Rose (Zephirine Drouhin) makes an 

 excellent bush, and its lovely, fragrant blooms of soft 

 rose-colour, that are freely produced for weeks together, 

 are most welcome. The pruning essential to its free 

 blooming is directed to thinning out the oldest stems 

 occasionally, rather than to cutting back. Zephirine 

 Drouhin is quite one of the old-fashioned roses now, 



