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ity of the Tea rose contributes to the Hybrid 

 Tea this tendency to flower all summer through; 

 and so the result is a hardy or very nearly 

 hardy, ever-blooming rose that is sometimes tea 

 scented, sometimes rose fragrant, and sometimes 

 a combination of both. 



As to this matter of fragrance let me say 

 right here that the rose that lacks it is, to my 

 mind, not to be held eligible for any garden. For 

 the rose is, above all other things, a flower to be 

 grown for the purpose of cutting and the enjoy- 

 ment of the individual that comes with this close 

 contact. And while form and color are delights 

 to excite the greatest admiration and pleasure 

 in the observer, it is the sweetness of the flower 

 after all that ravishes the sense and transports 

 the being. Red roses are richest in this fra- 

 grance, pale roses most delicate or lacking it 

 altogether, and yellow roses or roses bordering 

 on that shade, most mysteriously odorous of tea. 



Of the Rugosa class and the others mentioned 

 I shall speak later; those just described I want 

 to consider while they are fresh before us — the 

 manner of growing them and the methods of 

 handling them generally — for these are the three 

 classes from which the most of roses grown in 

 rose gardens, come. In the first place, how 

 ought they to be used in the garden.^ And then. 



