The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing

The book that taught America to grow roses out of doors: how to site and prepare a bed, how to prune and propagate, and a rated list of the best varieties with the faults of each set down honestly.

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Helen Good

Good-Reese, 1907 Tea 2 B 4 B BM 8 7 2 7 2 B A B 22 6 Sport of Maman Cochet. Delicate pink with deeper edges. Use Multiflora.

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Manchesan, 1840 China 2 A 4 A B Light blush pink. Good decorseason Hybrid Tea 2 B/C 6CC SM MS 37 Throughout season BB/AC 22 D.W. 11 14 5 2 A-Very good. B-Good. C-Fair. D-Poor. L-Large. M-Medium. S-Small. Si-Single. G-Kills to ground. D. W.-Dead wood. Alex. Dickson & Hybrid Tea 3 B 7 9 8 0 2 1 B B A 20 5 Sons, 1914 Paul & Son, 1907 Tea WK A/B G ABM 8 8 1 3 2AAA 15 5 Hybrid Tea 3 C B BM WK G 12 Throughout Si Hybrid Tea Hybrid Tea Hybrid Tea 7 5 season 2 6 44 4 Hybrid Tea 3 C VAB ML .. .. .. : .. : ..

A CA A A 15 D,W, A 18 4 A A 18 44 44 4 2 5 0 Deep orange. Sweet perfume.

Use Multiflora. 8 Intensely black-grained, scarlet crimson. Classed as a Hybrid Tea, but with the blooming characteristics of a Hybrid Perpetual, only giving scattering bloom in fall.

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