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paper. It is unfortunate that the most beautiful varieties 

 are, as a rule, the tenderest. Those who have grown them 

 out of doors only, can form no idea of their increased 

 beauty when cultivated under glass. Plant them out in a 

 house with or without heat ; if heat be employed they will 

 grow stronger, bloom earlier, and surfer less from mildew. 

 The strong-growing sorts may be trained to pillars, or up 

 the rafters of the house in the way of vines, and will pro- 

 duce flowers from every joint. The intermediate and 

 dwarfer kinds may be grown as pyramids and bushes. Tea- 

 Scented Roses succeed admirably grown in pots under 

 glass, especially if worked on the Manetti, and require little 

 pot-room and little pruning when in a young state. If 

 grown out of doors, the best plan is to plant them in a 

 border in front of, but a little distance from, a south wall, 

 for if fastened to the wall they are liable to suffer from the 

 attacks of red spider. Budded on the Dog-Rose in August 

 and allowed to remain dormant through the winter, they 

 form beautiful objects in the flower garden during the suc- 

 ceeding summer and autumn. No lover of Roses should 

 object to Tea-Roses because they are tender, or on the 

 assumption that they are difficult of culture ; they are 

 better worthy of a house or frame than half the greenhouse 

 plants that are cultivated, and far easier to manage than 

 one-fourth of the Hybrid Perpetual Roses. But then they 

 must not be treated as ordinary Roses. If grown out of 

 doors a warm and light rather than a moist and heavy soil is 

 required, and they should not be pruned till late in spring 

 (April). Distinct in colour, exquisite in form, rich in 

 foliage, and surpassing all in delicacy and power of frag- 

 rance, they deservedly hold a very high position among 

 the subjects of the " Queen of Flowers." 



Abricote" is a good hardy free-growing sort, though 

 scarcely vigorous ; the flowers are fawn colour with apricot 

 centre, large and double, very beautiful in bud. Adam has 

 rosy-blush flowers, very large and full, and is one of the 

 sweetest and best. Amabilis is a good hardy vigorous- 



