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Chicago, although the hybrid-perpetuals grow as far north as Canada.
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Some roses, as the brier and rugosa, need no protection, but other varieties, such as the hybrid perpetuals, teas and hybrid-teas, need special care, particularly north of the fortieth parallel.
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The roses suited for growing in pots or boxes, to be dried off and brought into heat in January or February, are the hybrid perpetuals, and the newer ramblers, Crimson, Baby White and Baby Pink.
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For the northern states a choice small list is as follows: hybrid perpetuals, Mrs. John Laing, Wilder, Ulrich Brunner, Frau Karl Druschki,
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There are so many kinds and classes that varieties may be found for almost any purpose, from climbing or pillar subjects to highly fragrant teas, great hybrid perpetuals, free-blooming bedders, and good foliage subjects for the shrubbery.
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In November the hardy perpetuals are all cut back to about two feet in height, and the old wood is thinned out.
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And to go back to the hardy hybrid perpetuals, do not fail to have Jules
Gardening by Myself 1872
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This plot here is filled with hardy hybrid perpetuals, and that with tender tea-roses, requiring very different treatment.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Why, Amy, an old gentleman who lives but a few miles away has had seventy distinct kinds of hybrid perpetuals in bloom at one time, and many of them the finest in existence; and yet he has but a little mite of a garden, and has been a poor, hard-working man all his life.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Too bad the U.S. government - and European ones, for that matter - can't finance budgets this way, issuing zero-coupon perpetuals, as Breakingviews suggested in a 2006 April Fool's prank.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEFFREY GOLDFARB 2011
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