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are highly desirable and never to be omitted 

 from the garden. 



The Tea roses are a group derived from the 

 China or Bengal rose, delicate in habit of 

 growth and actually blooming every month all 

 through the summer. In passing I may say 

 that the distinct fragrance of tea which charac- 

 terizes them appeals to the imagination, since 

 they are from the same parts of the world that 

 furnish the fragrant brew. And this will help 

 the unfamiliar student to remember where they 

 come from. For the hint of that fragrance, not 

 infrequently combined with what we regard as 

 the true rose odor, spells Tea ancestry in any 

 rose, anywhere; which is something to be re- 

 garded with interest, since Tea ancestry may 

 insure the persistent blooming that distinguishes 

 the pure Tea rose. 



Which brings us to the roses "par excellence of 

 to-day — the Hybrid Tea or, reduced to common 

 speech, the H. T. roses, a great class of really 

 glorious quality, produced by crossing roses in 

 the Hybrid Perpetual group with roses in the 

 Tea group, to the everlasting improvement of 

 each. That is, the hardier blood of the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals stiffens up the Teas, as it were, and 

 gives the offspring the endurance necessary to 

 make them hardy, while the ever-blooming qual- 



