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and many of the intermediate shades, such as those between crimson 
and yellow, which we get in ' Mme. E. Herriot ' and ' Henrietta,' look 
well ; but the washy tints of pinkish-white and blush, beautiful as 
they often look when well arranged, produce comparatively little 
effect in the garden, and the number of varieties of these colours 
grown should be severely restricted. (2) The other point is that the 
colour should be fast," that is to say, that the variation in colour 
throughout the season should be as small as possible. 
' Sunburst ' has many of the characters of a good Garden Rose. 
It grows well, is of good foliage and habit, and is not fastidious as to 
soil. I well remember the delight I felt in looking at the first exhibit 
of it that I saw. The centre of the flowers, a deep golden yellow, 
slightly paling to the edges, made the vase a beautiful object. Un- 
fortunately, in this country the colour is so woefully uncertain that 
it becomes useless in the garden. The lovely golden yellow flowers 
seem only to come occasionally and in hot weather, the large majority 
varying from dirty white to flowers with pale-yellow centres, and as 
a garden Rose it is useless. 
The crimson Hybrid Teas are usually rather serious offenders 
in this respect, if we happen to get hot, sunny weather for the second 
or late summer-flowering. The sun turns the crimson to a bluish 
tone which is far from pleasing, but improvement in this respect is 
not impossible. ' Red Cross,' * Red Letter Day,' Paul's ' Scarlet 
Climber,' and * Princess Mary ' seem to stand the sun better than 
many of the older forms. 
The yellow Roses, on the other hand, fail at the end of the season, 
when the October rains seem, as it were, to wash all the colour out of 
them, and such good Roses as ' Mme. Ravary,' * Lady Hillingdon,' 
and * Mme. Melanie Soupert ' lose all their attractiveness and bright- 
ness, appearing dirty white or little better. ' Golden Emblem ' and 
'Mrs. Wemyss Quin' keep their colour better than most, but the 
yellows can hardly be said as yet to have achieved a fast colour 
throughout the season. 
4. Continuous and free production of flowers throughout the 
season is a quality that needs no emphasis. This direction is one in 
which the Roses of to-day differ most from those of a century ago. 
Varieties vary very much in this respect, but no Hybrid Teas can be 
considered in the first rank unless it possesses these qualities in greater 
or less degree. They are, however, quite distinct qualities and often 
as the one increases the other decreases. 
The Hybrid Tea flowers in a succession of periods, usually fairly 
well marked, beginning in June and going on till late autumn, some- 
times even till Christmas. With some varieties, such as * General 
Mc Arthur,' we get a quantity of bloom produced at once. It is free- 
blooming, the flowers last for a certain time — perhaps a couple of weeks 
— and the bed then becomes flowerless until the next flowering period 
arrives, in about a month's time. 
In others, and I think I may take for examples ' Mme. E. Herriot, 
