Some Tea flower expands and fades. Its scent is delicious, and it is both 

 Roses a vigorous and quick climber, and bears its blossoms in a 

 profusion quite startling. 



A hedge or screen of Purple East in full flower with its 

 masses of loose petals and grey lilac shades is to my mind one of 

 the greatest delights of the summer. It begins to bloom early in 

 June or at the end of May, and continues to flower in riotous 

 profusion for many weeks, and has a second and third flowering 

 which extends all through the Rose season. But it must be 

 borne in mind that its colouring should be carefully placed both 

 for growing and cutting, and on no account must it be planted 

 near other red or pink Roses. It should stand with Madame 

 Alfred Carriere^ that splendid white climber, with Una (a fine 

 semi-single), or with Gustave Regis^ indeed with any of the 

 whites or yellows, and it will reward the care given and its 

 insinuating beauty will delight the heart of the artist and 

 garden lover. 



Although I have dwelt at such length on the beauty of 

 single and semi-single Roses, it must not be supposed that there is 

 not plenty to appreciate in the lovely Teas, Hybrid Teas and 

 Hybrid Perpetuals, which adorn our gardens and give a wealth 

 of bloom and scent, and which justify the poets' epithet " The 

 Queen of Flowers." They do indeed reign in their full pride 

 at the end of June, and are the prime favourites, eclipsing even 

 the Delphiniums of heavenly blue. Could anything equal the 

 beauty of a half expanded bud of Gusfave Regis or of Belle 

 Siebrecht for colour or form ! This latter, by the way, is best 

 grown by obtaining the climbing variety which can be cut back 

 and pruned into a dwarf at will. I have thus found it so much 

 more vigorous than the " dwarf," but if allowed to grow up a 



'56 



