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House & Garden 
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Beautiful in bud form, and 
very free flowering, is the 
crimson-scarlet Hybrid Tea, 
Richmond 
A good ever-blooming Tea is 
Sunrise, of peach red beau¬ 
tifully shaded with orange 
and crimson 
A Score of Best Roses-—and a Few Over 
(Continued from page 12) 
a velvety textured flower so dark as to 
be almost black. If something very un¬ 
usual is desired, I am not sure that I 
should not choose this, though Baron 
de Bonstetton is close behind it in color 
and produces flowers of exceptional 
vigor, size and fragrance. The old- 
time General Jacqueminot is too well 
known to need description; it is lighter 
in color than the others, not so full a 
flower, but does well everywhere. 
Everyone wants a Paul Neyron, for 
in addition to being the largest rose in 
the world, it is very free flowering, 
strong and sturdy and of a fine, deep 
rose color. Darker than this is the 
Marshall P. Wilder, a fine, splendid 
growing sort that goes on blooming long 
after others of its class stop; and darker 
still, though not at all the deep red of 
the three named first, is the Pierre Not- 
ting, which is distinguished by being at 
its best often in the autumn. 
There are two especially good white 
roses in the H. P. group, one of which 
is very popular while the other is not 
well known. I would not have the first, 
Frau Karl Druschki; but I most cer¬ 
tainly would have the second, Margaret 
Dickson, lovely in form and substance, 
with great shell-like petals and good 
foliage. In addition to all these points, 
it is fragrant—which the Frau Karl 
Druschki is not; and though the latter 
is perhaps a clearer white, it is not in¬ 
frequently a bit marbled and painted 
with deep rose on its outer petals. Mar¬ 
garet Dickson shows a faint flush at its 
heart, which is better to my taste than 
color on the outside. 
Another white H. P. is Marchioness 
of Londonderry, with practically every¬ 
thing for it and nothing against except 
that its petals are reflexed, or roll back¬ 
ward. This is to me a characteristic 
that greatly mars the beauty of the flow¬ 
er, though it is not generally so con¬ 
sidered, I know. Where the rolling is 
only slight, and the outer petals alone 
are involved, it is less objectionable than 
where the entire mass of them curls 
backward. 
Coming back to the red rose, which 
is unquestionably the richest of all, there 
is a variety commonly offered as a Hy¬ 
brid Tea which rightly belongs in the 
H. P. class, a rose having a fine long 
bud which opens into a large and 
sumptuous flower of richest fragrance, 
in color a very deep crimson, borne on 
long and strong stems—surely a rose 
which everyone should have. It is 
named His Majesty; look for it among 
the Hybrid Teas, but use it as a Hybrid 
Perpetual. Its period of bloom is quite 
distinctly June rather than all summer, 
and it is too bad for one to buy it ex¬ 
pecting it to conduct itself as the Hy¬ 
brid Teas commonly do. 
Last but not least in the list of the 
very best H. P. roses comes Mrs. John 
Laing, the choicest of all, without a 
doubt, in that its lovely soft pink flow¬ 
ers are large, of great substance, most 
deliciously scented, and produced in 
abundance on long stiff stems practic¬ 
ally all summer. Of all this class, it is 
the most nearly perpetual blooming. 
Among the Hybrid Teas 
Reversing the order when it comes to 
naming the Hybrid Teas, I am going to 
put the first choice at the head of the 
list. This is a red rose, introduced in 
1905, an American production named 
for an American soldier—General Mc¬ 
Arthur. No fuss has ever been made 
about it, but it is steadily growing in 
popularity because of its superlative 
merits. It is not like an American 
Beauty, exactly, yet it bears comparison 
with that famous greenhouse rose almost 
as no other does, and if I could have 
but one rose bush, this would be the 
choice. Needless to say, its fragrance is 
entrancing. 
A rose of exceptional late summer 
beauty is Betty, and although the flower 
is rather loose and open, the color and 
season make it a most desirable variety. 
It is that rare shade of coppery gold 
overlaid with yellow which defies analy¬ 
sis, and in addition to being a strong 
grower, it is fragrant. The one fault of 
this variety is that its flowers in the 
early part of the season may be a disap¬ 
pointment; but be patient. With the 
coming of autumn, when the plants are 
established, there will be absolutely noth¬ 
ing left to desire. 
Another wonderful yellow rose is the 
Duchess of Wellington. Some, indeed, 
consider it the best of this color; but 
the very best yellow rose of all is prob¬ 
ably Harry Kirk. This, however, is a 
Tea rose, and therefore not to be consid¬ 
ered quite yet, while we are still think¬ 
ing of Hybrid Teas. 
The one rose that it is supposed to 
be impossible to fail with is Gruss an 
Teplitz—redder than flame, velvety in 
texture, fragrant and forever in bloom 
as well as being absolutely hardy as far 
north as New York City. I do not like 
it as well as those mentioned first, but 
I would not like to be without it. It is 
too reliable to be spared. 
It is half a century since one of the 
first H. T.’s was introduced, yet there 
is nothing in the whole rose calendar 
today lovelier than this pale shell-pink 
La France, with its heavy, dense flow¬ 
ers and own particular fragrance. It is 
difficult to understand why such a rose 
as this is ever omitted. It has no faults 
whatsoever, unless it be a fault that its 
buds are so dense that wet weather 
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