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the summer, has red flowers, and this has also been used 

 in raising hybrids. One of them is the Bourbon Rose 

 (Borbonica). It would be useless to endeavour to trace 

 the stages by which our modern Hybrid Perpetuals 

 have been raised from these old Roses, as no records of 

 the various crosses have been, or are ever likely to be, 

 published ; but the fact that the old species named were 

 the parents of them invests them with special interest in 

 our eyes. 



Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses. Greatly as modern Tea 

 Roses differ from Hybrid Perpetuals, having for the 

 most part smaller, more conical and lighter-coloured 

 flowers, thinner stems, and deeper colour in the foliage, 

 they are nevertheless supposed to have derived from a 

 variety of the Monthly Rose called Rosa indica odorata. 

 The Hybrid Teas are intermediate between the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals and Teas, and have sprung from crosses 

 between varieties of these two sections. It is interesting 

 to note that the most remarkable additions to the Hybrid 

 Tea section, which is now the most remarkable of all, 

 have been made by Irish raisers. It is hardly too much 

 to say that in the twenty years between 1890 and 1910 

 they revolutionised Rose-growing. In spite of their 

 name, the Hybrid Perpetual Roses are not, as a class, 

 continuous bloomers, and they only held priority over 

 the Teas owing to their larger flowers, richer colours, and 

 reputedly superior hardiness. The Hybrid Teas bloom 

 much more continuously than the Hybrid Perpetuals, 

 and as they equal them in brilliancy of colour, they hold 

 an advantage as garden plants. 



The Musk Rose is the Rosa moschata of the botanists, 

 who tell us that it was brought from Bombay in 1596, 

 and had white flowers. This may be correct, as it has 

 been found in Nepaul, but Hakluyt (Voiages, vol. ii.) 



