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kill themselves with this prodigal outpouring of 

 flowers, which are as delicate in scent as they are 

 in colouring. 



It is said that the old Devoniensis was one 

 of the first English-raised roses, having its origin 

 in the single yellow tea known as Th^ Jaune. 

 Devoniensis was used by Bennett, who crossed 

 it with the famous Victor Verdier, and obtained 

 the beautiful hybrid. Lady Mary FitzwilUam, from 

 which indirectly has come Caroline Testout, Frau 

 Karl Druschki, and the majority of the hybrid 

 teas. During the summer months a rose may be 

 seen in flower in the Royal Gardens, Kew, called 

 Rosa indica (Miss Lowe's variety), and from that 

 we believe most of our tea roses have been 

 derived, fertilised with other forms of the same 

 species. 



The hybrid perpetuals differ largely from the 

 tea-scented roses ; they are popularly supposed to 

 have sprung from hybridising the hybrid Bourbon 

 with the hybrid Chinese and damask perpetual, 

 among the first raised being one named Princesse 

 Helene, which JNIr. Wm. Paul ascribes to the 

 work of that eminent raiser, Monsieur Laffay. 

 The wood of the typical hybrid perpetual is stout 

 and upright, the spines coarse, and the leaves 



