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THE BOOK OF THE ROSE 



CHAP. 



Hybrid Tea, of quite dwarf habit, but of stout, stiff, 

 robust growth. This is a fine early show Rose, large, 

 very full, bright and glistening and of perfect shape, 

 white tinted with salmon rose. Its short growth makes 

 it quite unsuited for anything but show purposes, but 

 the constitution seems fairly good, and I am surprised 

 that it is not grown more largely by exhibitors. 



Gloire de Margottin (Margottin, 1887). — This is a 

 good deal like an improved form of Gloire de Roso- 

 menes (Yibert), which is, I believe, the progenitor of 

 General Jacqueminot. The growth is long and rambling, 

 and it does well for a pillar, or especially for being 

 pegged down as a bedding Rose. It is exceedingly 

 bright in colour, but thin in petal, and not very full : 

 nevertheless the shape is good and pointed while it 

 remains, and it is perhaps the brightest of all the true 

 red Roses. It seems likely to be very effectual if forced 

 for market purposes, but has not I fanc} T as yet super- 

 seded " the General." 



Gloire Lyonnaise (Guillot, 1884). — A Hybrid Tea, said 

 when sent out to be a yellow H.P. : but it is practically 

 white, the yellow shade being very faint. Of very 

 strong growth, even in poor soil, not liking clay land. 

 It will not do on manetti and, like most Hybrid Teas, is 

 best as a standard. The buds are beautiful, but the 

 petals are very thin, and it will not stand in hot 

 weather. Not free-flowering if pruned hard, but capital 

 in autumn, when fine well-shaped blooms may some- 

 times be gathered. 



Grace Darling (Bennett, 1884). — This was sent out 

 as a Tea Rose but pronounced to be a Hybrid Tea by the 

 National Rose Society, the foliage being more like that 

 of the H.P.s : of good growth, not much liable to mildew, 

 but requiring dry weather. It is rather wanting in stout- 



