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The Hybrid Perpetual is the Eose of England : 

 for not only are the best crimsons and reds with 

 which a Bose is generally associated to be found in 

 this Class, but also it is undoubtedly better grown 

 in the British Isles than anywhere else. It has 

 been said of our climate that it has no weather, but 

 only samples : this exactly suits the H.P.s, which 

 like a couple of hot dry days, followed by a dull, 

 cool, damp one, and long continued " weather " of 

 any sort will prevent their coming to perfection. 

 From all tropical countries, or indeed from any 

 district where the weather is " settled " during the 

 blooming season, I have the same reports, that 

 Teas and Hybrid Teas are the only Roses worth 

 growing : and the truth of this was seen in the dry 

 tropical summer of 1901, with its abundance of sun- 

 shine, when H.P.s were so deficient in form and 

 colour that I found it impossible to get good typical 

 blooms for fresh photographs. 



Hybrid Teas intended, originally, to represent the 

 cross between Teas and H.P.s no longer do so, to 

 that extent the classification is unsatisfactory. It 

 is very difficult even now to draw a decided line of 

 division, either on the one side or the other, and it 

 seems more than probable that the task will become 

 almost impossible when the Hybrid Teas are crossed 

 back again into the H.P.s or Teas. As, however, 

 there have been more good new Eoses in this Class 

 than in any other during the last twelve years, and 

 they are given separately, in almost all lists, I have 

 placed those considered by the N.E.S. to belong to 

 this Class in a distinct division in Chap. XII. The 

 popularity of this class owing to its hardiness, 

 freedom of flowering, and length of flowering period, 



