ngee & Conard_, 1892. Creamy
white, yellow base.

Hon. Edith Gifford. _Guillot_, 1882. White, centre
flesh.

Innocent Pirola. _Ducher_, 1878. Creamy white,
shaded yellow.

Isabella Sprunt. _Verchaffelt_, 1866. Pale
sulphur.

Ivory. _America Rose Co._, 1902. Ivory-white sport
from Golden Gate.

Le Pactole. Sulphur yellow, pointed buds.

Madame Bravy. _Guillot_, 1846. White, centre
tinted pink.

Madame Carnot. _Pernet_, 1894. Yellowish white on
deep yellow ground.

Madame Hoste. _Guillot_, 1887. Primrose yellow.

Madame de Watteville. _Guillot_, 1883. Salmon
white, petals edged bright rose.

Marie Van Houtte. _Ducher_, 1871. Canary yellow,
petals tipped rose.

Marquis de Moustier. _Dubreuil_, 1906. Ivory,
reflexed pearly white.

Medea. _Wm. Paul & Son_, 1891. Lemon yellow,
canary centre.

Mrs. Miles Kennedy. _Alex. Dickson_, 1906. Silvery
white, shaded buff, pink centre.

Muriel Grahame. _Alex. Dickson_, 1898. Pale cream,
flushed rose.

Niphetos. _Bougere_, 1844. Pure white.

Peace. _Piper_, 1902. Pale lemon.

[Illustration: TEA.

WHITE MAMAN COCHET.]

Reine Natalie de Serbie. _Soupert et Notting_,
1886. Creamy flesh.

Rubens. _Robert_, 1859. White, delicately tinted
rose.

Souvenir d'Elise Vardon. _Marest_, 1854. Creamy
white.

Souvenir de Gabrielle Drevet. _Guillot_, 1865.
Salmon white.

Souvenir de S. A. Prince. _Prince_, 1889. Pure
white sport from Souv. d'un Ami.

The Bride. _May_, 1885. White sport from Catherine
Mermet.

White Maman Cochet. _Cook_, 1898. White sport from
Maman Cochet.

CHAPTER VII

HYBRID TEA-ROSES, _R. indica odorata hybrida_

OF all gracious gifts that the patient science of hybridists has
bestowed on rose-lovers, the development of the Hybrid Tea is perhaps
the greatest. For here we have a rose with the substance and vigorous
constitution of the Hybrid Perpetual, one of its parents, and the varied
and delicate colours of its other parent, the Tea rose. Whether for the
garden, to keep it brilliant with blossom from early su