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having the odour of peaches, of melons, of raspberries, and so forth. 
The fact is that these shadowy likenesses are merely used in default 
of descriptive scent words to convey the impression left on the sense of 
smell. ' Marechal Niel ' is a Rose which would come in this category. 
Whence it derived its scent would be an interesting speculation. I 
have asked the question of several prominent rosarians. ' Cloth of 
Gold ' and ' Lamarque ' have been suggested. 
My third class includes Roses with the so-called Tea scent. Again 
the description Tea-scented has to serve for want of anything better. 
The scent of Tea Roses is slight and, to me, not always particularly 
attractive. But there are exceptions. These are probably more 
apparent than real. For instance ' Gloire de Dijon ' is sweetly 
scented ; it cannot, however, be classed as a true Tea. 
To one or other of these three classes we should have little or no 
difficulty in referring our scented Roses, and the first class is the one 
for those who desire the true Rose scent, and the one to receive every 
encouragement. 
In recent years French, English, Irish, and American raisers working 
on systematic and scientific lines have done wonders for the Rose. 
Never before were there so many beautiful new varieties. And we 
cannot suppose that hybridists have been unmindful of scent. Mr. 
McGredy tells me that he has given much thought and attention to 
the subject, but in his efforts to raise Roses carrying the sweet perfume 
of the old H.P., disappointments have been more frequent than 
successes. His experience suggests that in crossing H.P.s and Teas 
scent is largely lost in the first cross, and the majority of the seedlings 
partake more after the seed-bearing parent than the pollen parent as 
regards scent. This, he thinks, is probably through his using the H.P. 
as the pollen parent, but in cases where the Tea Rose pollen has been 
used on H.P.s he finds little or no improvement so far as scent goes. 
The seedlings from H.P.s on Teas had better constitutions and were 
generally better growers than the reversed cross, and it was on this 
account more than any other that this line was followed. 
He has only lately found in the second, third, fourth, and fifth 
series of crosses, when followed up carefully, a strong tendency among 
many of the seedlings to throw back and give the sweet perfume 
of the original H.P. pollen parent, and he is now securing a batch 
of seedlings which he says are delightfully sweet-scented, not with 
the Tea or " fruity " perfume one more commonly finds among new 
Roses, but the real Damask or true Rose scent, and he makes the 
welcome forecast that we may expect improvement in this respect. 
As we all know, Mr. MgGredy obtained the Gold Medal of the National 
Rose Society for the splendid fragrant dark crimson Hybrid Tea 
' Courtney Page ' at the Autumn Show in September 1920, so that 
success has already crowned his efforts. 
He has given me a most interesting account of the origin of this 
Rose and of the lines on which he is working. I feel sure he will 
prove justified in his belief that scent will come back again, and that 
