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distinct a break in flower, foliage, habit, and 

 substance from the original type, must have 

 been due to the introduction of some other 

 strain such as the Noisette in the fertilization 

 of the seed-bearing plant that produced Gloire 

 de Dijon. 



Since that date new Tea Roses have been 

 raised ad infinitum both in France, England, 

 and Luxembourg ; while of late Germany and 

 the United States have contributed some fine 

 varieties to the bewildering list. Only to 

 mention a few of the many who have devoted 

 themselves to the raising of Tea Roses in the 

 last fifty years, and more recently of the Hybrid 

 Teas, the names of Messrs. William Paul and 

 Son of Waltham Cross, Ben Cant of Colchester, 

 Paul of Cheshunt, Prince of Oxford, Alex. 

 Dickson of Newtownards, among British 

 growers ; and the famous French houses of 

 Ducher, Nabonnand, Pernet, Guillot, Bernaix, 

 Bonnaire, Levet, Lacharme, Soupert et Netting, 

 are household words to all Rose-growers. 



Many of these lovely Roses very distinctly 

 show the effect of the old Tellow Tea Rose 



