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12 MAR 03 by
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How should I pick a rose to grow indoors?
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John Mattock edited an excellent all-around rose book called The Complete Book of Roses, in which you'll find the following advice about choosing roses for indoor growing: The majority of modern Hybrid Teas and Floribundas can be grown with some success under glass. Those with a high petallage are generally more successful. Some of the early-flowering Hybrid Teas are best avoided as they will mature too quickly and are short lived. The beginner will be tempted to grow some of the cut-flower varieties more familiar in the florist's shop. These may prove a disappointment as they have been bred to produce economic crops under very strict growing regimes. A number of mail-order nurseries carry florist varieties. Carlton Rose Nursery is one that specializes in these varieties and has also hybridized some of them. The House of Meilland has a cut-flower division. Poulsen Roser ApS has bred dozens of miniature varieties for growing indoors.
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kordes and presman and scheurs and rosen tantua also have excellant glass house types. remember such reds as black velvet kardinal virgo[white].red and others devil were glass house roses and many still are.
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