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hybrid tea

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hybrid tea
n.
Any of a class of cultivated hybrid roses originally developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted especially for their long-stemmed flowers in a wide range of strong colors and for their extended blooming season. Also called hybrid tea rose.


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Pick up a Weeks Roses catalog, open the front page and salivate over the new hybrid tea ``Gentle Giant,'' a rich vibrant pink with an inner glow of golden yellow.
For gardeners weary of dowsing their rose bushes with pesticides, Wilde focuses on heirloom rose varieties and other new strains that are more cold hardy and disease resistant than common hybrid tea roses.
Other new varieties include "Macho Man," "Sultry," "Long Tall Sally" and "Barbra Streisand," a deep mauve, hybrid tea with an intense fragrance.
 
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