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“burns” in hot weather. The blooms will only 
come fine if strong shoots are produced and this is 
a difficult task with purchased plants, as the consti- 
tution is weak and does not bear removal well. It 
is best to bud it annually; but plants which have not 
been moved will sometimes do well as cutbacks fora 
few seasons. It requires high culture on briar and 
is not free-flowering or good as an autumnal, but it 
is a fine, well-built bloom when you get it good, with 
stout petals, high centre, fine globular outline, full size 
and dark, sometimes rather dull, colour. The flowers 
being heavy and the wood weak, flowering shoots of 
dwarfs should be staked when the bud is formed. 
The lasting powers of the blooms are particularly 
good, and itis worthy of notice, as an example of the 
odd manners and customs of Roses, that some of the 
weakest growers have the most lasting flowers, and 
vice versa. For instance, Marquis de Mortemart 
and Madame Ducher, two H.P.s that have dropped 
out of cultivation from their extreme poorness of 
growth, were especially noted for the lasting 
character of their blooms, while such strong growers 
as Heinrich Schultheis and Thomas Mills show the 
opposite side of the picture. Louis Van Houtte will 
not do with me: arespectable bloom even on strong 
shoots is a rarity : but many others grow it well and 
esteem it highly. For anything but exhibition 
purposes, however, it should be avoided. 
Madame Charles Crapelet (Fontaine, 1859).— 
Eliminated by the editors of this edition. 
Madame Eugéne Verdier (Verdier, 1878).—Grows 
well as a maiden, but the first growths of cutbacks 
are sometimes very short; still the blooms come 
just as well, and the foliage is fine. The constitution 
