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a still smaller number will care to investigate 

 thoroughly the forty-one groups carefully enumerated 

 by Mr. W. Paul in his systematic work. 



Now that hybridising and crossing of groups is 

 so largely undertaken, it seems plain that many 

 new divisions and classes are likely to arise, and 

 old lines of demarcation will be confused. Apart 

 from the true climbers, and all summer or botanical 

 varieties, Eoses to the novice or spectator at Eose 

 shows are generally divided into H.P.s and Teas, 

 and the more these two great divisions are con- 

 solidated and made inclusive instead of being sub- 

 divided, the less confusion, to my mind, is likely to 

 arise from crossing and hybridising. 



Cultivated Eoses are naturally divided into two 

 divisions at the outset : Summer (i.e., those which 

 only bloom once in the year) , and Perpetual (i.e. those 

 which have at least something of a second crop). 

 It is obvious that the latter is the more valuable ; 

 the H.P.s if taken to include the Hybrid Teas and 

 all Bourbons which are perpetual, and the Teas, 

 with the Noisettes which are mostly crossed with 

 them, form the bulk of the perpetual Eoses, and 

 have therefore increased immensely in culture, 

 popularity, and number of varieties, while the sorts 

 which bloom only in the summer have naturally 

 been neglected, though perpetual forms have now 

 been raised among the Ayrshire, Polyantha, Scotch, 

 and Moss classes. The H.P.S and Teas, using the 

 terms in their widest and most inclusive sense, 

 would thus embrace all the Eoses which give the 

 finest and most perfect blooms. 



The live-stock-keeper's adage, that it costs no 

 more to keep a good animal than a bad one, may. 



