GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



also shows the electrifying colors of gold and crimson. 

 It can be grown in the rose garden, although it is 

 doubtful whether it ever attains there the perfection 

 that marks it when living under glass. Nevertheless, 

 I have seen it doing fairly well in a rose bed not much 

 cultivated or particularly sheltered. 



I remember one bed of yellow tea-scented roses 

 which was planted about the base of a sundial forming 

 the central point of a garden. Among them many 

 bulbs of yellow gladioli sent up their flowers, which 

 gave height to the bed and intensified its various tones 

 of the same color. The arrangement was very notice- 

 able and entirely practical, since the bulbs of the 

 gladioli are sufficiently small not to interfere with or 

 to drain the nourishment from the roses. Neither 

 do the rose bushes grow high enough to screen the air 

 and sunlight from the gladioli. 



Tea-scented roses require considerable moisture 

 and to have the ground about them kept well enriched. 

 Soot, as a fertilizer, agrees with them admirably. It is 

 not customary to prune them so severely as the hybrid 

 perpetuals, unless they are weak in their growth. 

 Robust bushes need to be trimmed lightly. 



Hybrid Tea Roses 



It is undoubtedly among the hybrid teas that the 

 greater number of new roses are to be found to-day; 

 and it is also likely that for many years to come 

 improvements will continue to be achieved in this 

 class of dwarf roses. The hybrid teas, as is well known, 

 are crosses between the hardy, hybrid perpetuals and 



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