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Canadian Horticulturist. 



Vol XV. 



1892 



Xri. 9. 



PERLE DES JARDINS, 



LTHOUGH the most of our readers are more interested in 

 growing hardy, remontant roses, that large class of hardy out- 

 door varieties which will endure our Canadian winters and 

 make so grand a display of bloom with so little trouble to the 

 grower, yet some may desire to experiment with those exquis- 

 itely scented, though very delicate. Teas, with which florists 

 so often charm our senses. As Mr. H. B. Ellwanger says in 

 his book on " The Rose " : 



" The Tea rose (Rosa Indica Ordorata) may well be 

 taken as a synonym for all that is delicately beautiful. What refinement of 

 color ; what subdued, yet powerful fragrance do they possess ! They are, indeed, 

 *^he centre of loveliness ; like fair maids at a reception surrounded by admiring 

 groups, these lend beauty to the others, which may well strive to find a near 

 approach to their sweet presence, that perchance they may receive a smile, and 

 borrow beauty, diffused from their chaste loveliness. There has always been a 

 warm place in my heart for the Tea rose, for, su/> rosa, let me confess it, this was 

 my first love (I fear no conjugal jealousy or censure in making this confession) . 

 a bed of Tea roses planted near my father's house first won me as a devotee to 

 the rose, and by foliage and flower I learned to distinguish varieties among them 

 before I even knew the names in other classes ; I should now as soon think of 

 doing without roses altogether as not to have a bed of Teas in my garden. 



