ROSES 



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Of all classes of Roses, and there are many, none can 

 compare for a moment with the Teas, most beautiful of 

 summer flowers. Sweetly scented ; of every shade from 

 pale apricot and satiny flesh to glowing crimson ; 

 flowering over the longest possible period, from June 

 often into December ; more graceful in habit than any 

 Hybrid Perpetual, and far more lovely in foliage ; these 

 are the Roses to fill the Cottage Garden with colour and 

 fragrance. If we were to lose every other Rose but 

 these, we should still be more than rich. Tea Roses 

 have been, still are, regarded as delicate, as suitable 

 only for warm and sheltered gardens, and even there 

 demanding protection in winter. This is pure nonsense, 

 as all who have grown the hardy kinds will agree. I 

 know gardens in which nothing but Teas are grown ; 

 and there, in spite of severe winters and cold winds, 

 hardly a plant is lost. Throughout summer and autumn 

 they are filled with Roses, the blooms produced by the 

 thousand, and the air laden with their perfume. Of 

 course the warmer and more sheltered the district, the 

 greater the opportunities for including many delightful 

 kinds ; but by exercising reasonable care in selection 

 there are very few gardens where the fragrant Teas 

 may not be grown in beds and borders, on fence and 

 trellis, over walls and house front, clothing the earth 

 with their glossy foliage and flower-laden sprays. 



The question of stock is all important where Tea 

 Roses are concerned, and the fact that so many thousands 

 are propagated on unsuitable stocks, the Manetti chiefly, 

 has led not a little to misconceptions as to their utility 

 for permanent planting. It must be remembered that 

 for years nurserymen have given little thought to the 

 artistic design of gardens ; their aim with Roses has 

 been to produce trees which establish themselves quickly, 

 and produce show blooms within a year or so of plant- 

 ing. Tea Roses on the Manetti succeed in this, it is 



