Some Tea flower expands and fades. Its scent is delicious, and it is both 
Roses a vigorous and quick climber, and bears its blossoms in a 
profusion quite startling. 
A hedge or screen of Purple East in full flower with its 
masses of loose petals and grey lilac shades is to my mind one of 
the greatest delights of the summer. It begins to bloom early in 
June or at the end of May, and continues to flower in riotous 
profusion for many weeks, and has a second and third flowering 
which extends all through the Rose season. But it must be 
borne in mind that its colouring should be carefully placed both 
for growing and cutting, and on no account must it be planted 
near other red or pink Roses. It should stand with Madame 
Alfred Carriere, that splendid white climber, with Una (a fine 
semi-single), or with Gustave Regis, indeed with any of the 
whites or yellows, and it will reward the care given and its 
insinuating beauty will delight the heart of the artist and 
garden lover. 
Although I have dwelt at such length on the beauty of 
single and semi-single Roses, it must not be supposed that there is 
not plenty to appreciate in the lovely Teas, Hybrid Teas and 
Hybrid Perpetuals, which adorn our gardens and give a wealth 
of bloom and scent, and which justify the poets’ epithet “‘ The 
Queen of Flowers.” They do indeed reign in their full pride 
at the end of June, and are the prime favourites, eclipsing even 
the Delphiniums of heavenly blue. Could anything equal the 
beauty of a half expanded bud of Gustave Regis or of Belle 
Stebrecht for colour or form! This latter, by the way, is best 
grown by obtaining the climbing variety which can be cut back 
and pruned into a dwarf at will. I have thus found it so much 
more vigorous than the ‘‘ dwarf,” but if allowed to grow up a 
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