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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 23, 
; Ruralisms ; 
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NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The Best Hybrid Tea Roses.—A cor¬ 
respondent asks for a list of the best Hy¬ 
brid Tea roses for outdoor culture from 
the standpoint of the Rural Grounds work¬ 
ers. The “best’’ rose or best plant of any 
kind for a special purpose is so largely 
a matter of local conditions that the care¬ 
ful experimenter is reluctant to make se¬ 
lections for general use. Certain vari¬ 
eties, however, appear to possess greater 
adaptability for diverse localities and a 
higher range of general excellence, so that 
it may be justifiable to recommend them 
for trial. 
Although the widely popular La France 
rose was grown in France from a Tea 
rose seed in 1807, the fascinating race of 
roses known as Hybrid Teas, which com" 
bines to a great extent the large blooms, 
brilliancy of coloring and hardiness of the 
Remontant or Hybrid Perpetual type with 
the grace and free-flowering qualities of 
the tea-scented varieties, is of quite mod¬ 
ern origin and practically originated at 
Stapleford, England, in 1876, in the 
nurseries of Henry Bennet, who crossed 
President, a well-known vigorous Tea 
rose, with salmon-colored flowers, at 
that time much esteemed for forcing, 
with pollen of various Remontants. The 
novel and interesting varieties that re¬ 
sulted attracted wide attention and start¬ 
ed a furore for hybridizing the Tea rose 
of China with other races that has ex¬ 
tended all over the horticultural world. 
More than 450 new varieties have since 
been produced, only a few of which have 
sufficient all-’round merit to warrant con¬ 
tinued cultivation. Tliei following selec¬ 
tion, arranged according to color, covers 
those apparently best adapted to garden 
cultivation in the Middle States. 
Pink and red: Mme. Caroline Testout, 
Killarney, La France, Magnafrano, La 
Tosca, Wellesley, Mme. Abel Chatenay. 
Crimson and scarlet: Etoile de France, 
Mme. Eugene Marlitt, Gruss an Teplitz. 
White and blush: Kaiserin Augusta Vic¬ 
toria, Bessie Brown, Mme. Eugene Gro- 
lez. Yellow: Melanie Soupert. Mme. 
Pernet Ducher, Mme. Hector Leuillot. 
More varieties might be added, but those 
enumerated include all available colors 
and types. The red and yellow kinds are 
probably the hardiest and most resistant 
to disease. Killarney is admitted with 
certain misgivings, as it is quite subject 
to mildew, but is otherwise vigorous, and 
has such gloriously beautiful brilliant 
pink buds that it is well worth petting. 
Where La France does not succeed, and 
that especially fine type of rose is ad¬ 
mired we recommend La France of 1889, 
with large red flowers instead of the 'sil¬ 
very pink of the older kind. It is very 
free flowering, delightfully fragrant and 
altogether more robust. 
Hybrid Teas as Garden Plants. —Hy¬ 
brid Teas as a class have peculiarities of 
growth that must be taken into account 
by the gardener. The tendency toward 
continuous blooming, inherited from 
their Tea rose parent often seriously in¬ 
terferes with the proper development of 
young propagated plants. As a rule, buds 
should not be allowed to develop until the 
plants are fairly well established. They 
cost from 15 to 25 cents each in small 
sizes and from 40 to 75 cents each, ac¬ 
cording to variety, for strong two-year 
plants. The situation of the Hybrid Tea 
rose bed should be ir. full sun and a 
rather dry than moist location. Water 
for the roots can be furnished as needed, 
but clammy dews adhering to the foliage 
long after sunrise are emphatically to be 
avoided. The soil should be deeply dug 
and drained if necessary with a six-inch 
layer of stones, large bones or brick¬ 
bats, a foot below the surface, and should 
be made as rich as possible with fine old 
manure, with a fair addition of wood 
ashes, ground bone and Peruvian guano, 
if procurable. There is little danger of 
overdoing the matter as long as well-de¬ 
cayed yard manures and ashes are used, 
but commercial fertilizers containing ni¬ 
trate of soda and acid phosphates of lime 
should be used with caution, if at all. Pure 
natural guanos and raw bone meals are 
congenial, but should be used in repeated 
surface applications rather than heavy ad¬ 
mixtures with soil at time of planting. 
Set the plants firmly, breaking up the ball 
and spreading the roots to some extent, if 
they are pot-grown. Very thorough cul¬ 
tivation is necessary. Constant stirring 
of the soil not only aids growth but goes 
far to repress black-spot on the foliage, 
a disease that is the bane of American 
out-door rose culture as far as these 
fancy varieties are concerned. Where it 
appears, withhold all water and fertilizer, 
pick off the spotted, blackened foliage, keep 
the bed as dry as the weather will permit 
and hoe daily when not too wet. Mildew 
may be guarded against by dusting the 
foliage with sulphur while moist with 
dew and further controlled, in case of de¬ 
cided outbreaks, by spraying with dilute 
Bordeaux Mixture, not over three pounds 
each of copper sulphate and lime to 50 
gallons of water, or potassium sulphide 
freshly dissolved in warm water at the 
rate of one-half ounce sulphide to the 
gallon of water. The varieties above 
named with the exception of Killarney, 
are all remarkable resistant to mildew. 
Pruning is a very simple matter and with 
each variety readily suggests itself. As 
almost every shoot in a healthy plant ends 
in a bloom bud or cluster of buds, it is 
only necessary to let them come to ma¬ 
turity and cut the shoot off just above 
the lowest prominent leaf bud. which usu¬ 
ally begins to grow before the blooms 
are entirely developed. Weak and in¬ 
terfering branches should be entirely re¬ 
moved at any stage of their growth. The 
weakest growers require the most severe 
pruning, as it is only on the strongest 
shoots that perfect flowers are produced. 
The more vigorous kinds may be pretty 
much left to grow at will during Summer- 
All varieties, however, should be cut back 
in Spring to within a few inches of the 
soil, if the Winter’s frost has not already 
performed that service. Small mailing- 
size plants generally need a season of un¬ 
interrupted growth in the garden to de¬ 
velop their strength fairly for next year's 
bloom, and should not be allowed to push 
blooms to any extent, soon after planting. 
Winter Protection. —The Winter 
protection of doubtfully hardy roses is 
often a difficult matter. Shelter from 
Winter sunlight is more essential than 
blanketing from cold, though cold alone 
frequently destroys vitality. Hybrid Teas 
generally lose little in hardiness by the 
admixture of the blood of the tender 
Tea rose, and the varieties named are 
among the hardiest of their class. Up to 
the latitude of New York they need lit¬ 
tle covering save the shelter of evergreen 
boughs or coarse litter of some kind to 
prevent heaving, but in localities where 
the temperature goes far below zero the 
plants in addition should be covered with 
boxes or old barrels having good sized 
openings for ventilation. Litter or boughs 
may be heaped over the boxes or barrels, 
taking care not to lessen the ventilation 
too greatly, or earth and sods may be 
piled about them. Hybrid Teas may often 
be cut by frost to the soil line, but if 
propagated on their own roots, as they 
should be, they start again with vigor and 
make a satisfactory display the following 
season. 
Lazy Growing Hybrids.— Hybrid Tea 
roses have the peculiarity of entirely 
ceasing growth either under glass or out¬ 
side, for uncertain periods, when condi¬ 
tions do not exactly suit them, and are 
particularly liable to do so after an especi¬ 
ally full blooming period. This is prob¬ 
ably due to their mixed parentage, the in¬ 
fluence of the perpetual blooming Tea 
rose urging them to efforts beyond their 
powers of constant assimilation. The only 
thing to do in these periods of semi¬ 
dormancy is to withhold water and fer¬ 
tilizer, but constantly to hoe and cultivate 
as in the treatment for black-spot. Some 
of the most beautiful Hybrid Teas are 
so afflicted with this propensity for lazi¬ 
ness or intermittent growth as to be prac- 
ically useless. In our selection of varieties 
the defect has been avoided as far as 
possible. w. v. f. 
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