26 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
The Hybrid Perpetual is the Rose of England: 
for not only are the best crimsons and reds with 
which a Rose is generally associated to be found in 
this Class, but also it is undoubtedly better grown 
in the British Isles than anywhere else. It has 
been said of our climate that 1t has no weather, but 
only samples: this exactly suits the H.P.s, which 
like a couple of hot dry days, followed by a dull, 
cool, damp one, and long continued ‘‘ weather’ of 
any sort will prevent their coming to perfection... 
From all tropical countries, or indeed from any 
district where the weather is “‘settled’’ during the 
blooming season, I have the same reports, that 
Teas and Hybrid Teas are the only Roses worth 
growing: and the truth of this was seen in the dry 
tropical summer of 1901, with its abundance of sun- 
shine, when H.P.s were so deficient in form and 
colour that I found it impossible to get good typical 
blooms for fresh photographs. | 
Hybrid Teas intended, originally, to represent the 
cross between Teas and H.P.s no longer do so, to 
that extent the classification is unsatisfactory. It 
is very difficult even now to draw a decided line of 
division, either on the one side or the other, and it 
seems more than probable that the task will become 
almost impossible when the Hybrid Teas are crossed 
back again into the H.P.s or Teas. As, however, 
there have been more good new Roses in this Class 
than in any other during the last twelve years, and 
they are given separately, in almost all lists, I have 
placed those considered by the N.R.S. to belong to 
this Class in a distinct division in Chap. XII. The 
popularity of this class owing to its hardiness, 
freedom of flowering, and length of flowering period, 
