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and ‘T’ea-scented Roses, thereby producing a hardy 
race flowering throughout the summer and autumn. 
The Rose has perhaps undergone greater improve- 
ment within the last twenty years than it ever 
previously attained, and this improvement may be 
attributed in a great measure to the introduction of 
the class now under consideration, having opened a 
field for hybridising and raising seedlings to an 
almost endless extent. A better foundation to 
work upon there could not possibly have been, 
for certainly they are the most desirable of all 
Roses, 
In this section we have varieties suited to any 
soil, climate, or situation, and also adapted to a 
variety of purposes. Although vigorous and hardy, 
nevertheless some discretion must be exercised in 
selecting for cold damp situations, for many Roses 
which in the south of England are beautiful, will 
scarcely open their flowers in the north. 
Nearly all the Hybrid Perpetuals, excepting 
those described as of moderate habit, make good 
standards, but it will be well in every instance, 
when making selections, to bear in mind that the 
vigorous and robust make the best standards, and 
the moderate growers should be grown as dwarf 
bushes or dwarf standards only. 
There are many fine varieties in this class which 
are admirably adapted for grouping in masses. The 
following are especially fine: La France, General 
Jacqueminot, Baroness Rothschild, Senateur Vaisse, 
&c. The vigorous growers make handsome pillar 
Roses; for this purpose they are best budded upon 
