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cover. The seed heps should never be permitted 

 to mature, the strength and vigor should be con- 

 served for producing blooms which this climbing 

 hybrid-tea will do until heavy fro^. 



^ A point to remember is that the fir^ year after 

 planting all climbing hybrid-teas are be^ left un- 

 pruned, otherwise they are quite liable to refuse 

 to climb. Do you know there are twenty-four varie- 

 ties of China roses that have all the tints of hybrid- 

 teas and that are as dependable for all Summer 

 and all Autumn blooms, as the mo^t dependable 

 of the hybrid- teas? Yes, Rose Lovers, let us give 

 these China roses more attention. They should be 

 better underwood and should be more widely and 

 generously grown. 



^ I will describe those that bloomed through all 

 the vicissitudes of an extraordinary Summer. Cora 

 is a pure gold, all tinted with carmine-rose; Laurette 

 Messimy is all rose with amber shading; Mme. 

 Eugene Resal is a deep pink and coppery-bronze; 

 Queen Mab, a marvel of many colors, peach, deep 

 gold, rose and violet; Mrs. Edward Clayton, cop- 

 pery gold, the petals tipped with carmine and the 



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