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There is a popular error that these decorative Tea and China Roses are excessively tender. This has not been my experience. There are a few... that are undoubtedly tender, but with me such grand Teas as Lady Roberts, Madame Hoste, G. Nabonnand and the like, are as hardy as Betty or Mme. Abel Chatenay.....
I shall not attempt any order of merit in setting down the varieties, but I cannot refrain from mentioning, first, one Rose that seems to me an outstanding beauty, and that is G. Nabonnand. It has very large petals, colour soft salmon pink, shaded yellow. The flowers open very wide, and in autumn are wondrously beautiful. Its buds, too, are long and handsome. The wood is thornless, and foliage bold and bright.

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In conclusion, I should first like to name two Roses that appear to me to come within the scope of this article. One is Birdie Blye, a hybrid of Armosa. It is a Rose very seldom seen, but is a fine thing, blooming as late as the old blush China, with fine, bold clusters of a deep pink shade. As vigorous as the old Fellenberg, it deserves a place in every garden.
The other is Gloire des Rosomanes, a Rose often grouped with the Bourbons, but I cannot help thinking it has much of the China blood in it. A bed of this variety in autumn gives us a delightful brilliancy, so much appreciated at this season of the year. The reputed parent of General Jacqueminot and Gloire de Margottin, and perhaps indirectly of George C. Waud, we have a Rose of the old type that fits well into our modern Rose garden.
When the re-classification of Roses is taken up I hope we shall find Roses I have named all brought together under one group of “Perpetual Decoratives." The average Rose-grower does not care a button whether they are strictly Chinese, Bourbon or Tea scented so long as they provide him with a continuous display of lovely Roses.

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I have omitted Harry Kirk as I look upon him more as a Hybrid Tea than a true Tea.

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Irene Watts is equal in beauty to any Tea Rose, its flowers being large, of a soft salmon-pink colour.

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Lady Hillingdon is still the most lovely orange-yellow Rose. Of course, we all wish it were a little more double and held up its flowers better, but still, for all its defects, it is a fine Rose. Here, again, we have wood and foliage of remarkable beauty.

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There is a popular error that these decorative Tea and China Roses are excessively tender. This has not been my experience. There are a few ... that are undoubtedly tender, but with me such grand Teas as Lady Roberts, Madame Hoste, G. Nabonnand and the like, are as hardy as Betty or Mme. Abel Chatenay.

...A trio of near relations are Lady Roberts, Anna Ollivier, and Madame Hoste. The first named is a popular favourite, and rightly so, for its reddish-apricot buds are most effective. It is presumably a sport of Anna Ollivier, and at times its flowers resemble the latter very closely. As with many sports, the more intense the sunshine the more brilliant are the colours. The fawn-coloured elongated buds of Anna Ollivier make this variety a very great favourite for button-holes. Madame Hoste has pale yellow blossoms of large size, glorious in their purity and splendidly free.

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Madame Antoine Mari is a most charming variety. I think if I were restricted to one Tea Rose this would be my favourite. It is not exactly an ideal bedder, for its growth is very dense and some-what diffused, but its blossoms are so beautiful. The colours are white and lively rose pink, the latter colour pervading mostly the outer petals. What appeals to me is the glorious almost evergreen foliage, which accentuates the beauty of its lovely blossoms, and the buds are very refined.

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There is a popular error that these decorative Tea and China Roses are excessively tender. This has not been my experience. There are a few ... that are undoubtedly tender, but with me such grand Teas as Lady Roberts, Madame Hoste, G. Nabonnand and the like, are as hardy as Betty or Mme. Abel Chatenay.

A trio of near relations are Lady Roberts, Anna Ollivier, and Madame Hoste. The first named is a popular favourite, and rightly so, for its reddish-apricot buds are most effective. It is presumably a sport of Anna Ollivier, and at times its flowers resemble the latter very closely. As with many sports, the more intense the sunshine the more brilliant are the colours. The fawn-coloured elongated buds of Anna Ollivier make this variety a very great favourite for button-holes. Madame Hoste has pale yellow blossoms of large size, glorious in their purity and splendidly free.

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Our old friend Marie Van Houtte has somehow gone out of favour, but I imagine if some bold beds of if were seen in September, when the lemon buds have that charming crimson stain, few would miss an opportunity of possessing plants. Then see how gloriously it shows up upon a south wall. I have seen it in the Isle of Wight, and also in Guernsey, over-topping quite a tall wall. The plants were doubtless many years old. I remember in one of the Rose Annuals someone said the most glorious blooms of this Rose he ever saw were growing upon plants near a pig sty — so near that the porkers could feast upon them. Surely it did not speak much for the Rose-grower to plant such beauty near such repulsiveness.

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As to white Tea Roses we have Mrs Herbert Stevens and Molly Sharman Crawford, two fine varieties, and I am undecided which I like the better. It is a case of “how happy could I be with either were the other dear charmer away.” For beauty of bud I like Mrs Herbert Stevens, for effectiveness of display I prefer Molly, but as we are very bad off for pure white Roses I would recommend both being planted.