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garden, I by no means despise a bunch of its 

 lovely blossoms on long stalks. These Tea 

 Roses are but a tithe of those I grow and delight 

 in. I have, however, kept two of my greatest 

 favourites till the last. They are certainly 

 among the very best for bedding ; and one, the 

 delightful Dr. Grill, is not as universally culti- 

 vated as it should be. Perfect in shape, prolific 

 in flowers of a delicious mixture of pale copper 

 shaded with tender pink and China-rose, it is 

 deliciously fragrant and lasts well in water. 

 While even more perfect is G. Nabonnand, pale 

 rose shaded with yellow. For a bed such as 

 the one at Kew last year a mass of this Rose 

 cannot be surpassed ; as its handsome, large- 

 petalled flowers and singularly beautiful buds 

 are produced in quantities the whole season, 

 and its full foliage and bright reddish shoots 

 are in themselves most decorative. 



HYBRID TEAS. A statement I saw some 

 time ago in a gardening paper made me a little 

 sad. It was a letter from a head-gardener, 

 who said I cannot remember the exact words 

 that the improvement of late years in Tea and 



