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growing by hoeing and watering freely. Tea Roses and 

 hybrid teas are excellent for forcing, providing lovely button- 

 hole flowers as well as long-stemmed blooms for table or 

 vases. Protect the bushes in winter by earthing up the base 

 with burnt earth or ordinary mould. Then put some fern 

 from the wood among the branches and they will be secure 

 for the winter. Commence to cover up in November and 

 keep soil to the base until April, but the fern should be re- 

 moved now and then during mild intervals. If flowers of 

 high quality are desired prune hard each year (in April), but 

 if profusion then merely remove unripe ends of growths and 

 keep the centre open. 



Walls for Tea and Hybrid Tea Roses. Every advantage 

 should be taken of walls and close-boarded fences for the 

 beautiful Tea Roses. Unless the walls are very high do not 

 plant the usual so-called climbing kinds. Varieties known as 

 the strongest dwarf growers are the most suitable. Trench 

 the ground, plant in autumn, and prune very sparingly. 

 Thoroughly soak the plants at the roots now and then with 

 water. Twelve excellent sorts for this purpose are Anna 

 Olivier, Mme. Hoste, Caroline Testout, Molly Sharman 

 Crawford, Gustave Regis, The Bride, Billiard et Barre, White 

 Maman Cochet, Marie Van Houtte, Sunburst, Mme. Charles, 

 Mme. Lambard, and Mme. Abel Chatenay. 



Hybrid Perpetual Roses. This famous group of Roses has 

 its origin in the Damask Perpetual which was crossed with 

 the Bourbon, Hybrid Chinese, and other closely allied kinds, 

 and practically all the varieties have been raised since the 

 year 1844. The h.-p.'s, as rosarians called this class for the 

 sake of brevity, are more in request to give those beautiful 

 flowers seen at the exhibition, perfect specimens of form and 

 colour, but not always so perfect or desirable in the garden. 

 There is no question that the hybrid perpetual is for the 

 garden doomed to partial extinction through the raising of 

 so many charming hybrid tea-scented varieties, brilliant 

 China, or Monthly Roses, flowers far more worthy of the 

 name perpetual than those so christened, possessing also 

 greater delicacy of colour and form. But we hope the day 

 is far distant when the hybrid perpetual Roses, flowers of 

 intense colour, deep crimson, pink, rose, and white, and 

 many other shades, and filled with richest perfume, will 

 entirely disappear. We have need of them. 



Standard Roses. When these are desired the planter would do 

 well to select them from the hybrid perpetual and hybrid tea races, 



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