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growers were sold out quite early in the season. 
The colour, its most striking feature, is very variable, 
from shrimp pink to salmon without any shading of 
that yellow which is such a conspicuous feature in the 
typical flower, and makes it such a striking object 
in the centre of an exhibition box. It is a vigorous 
grower, that requires hard pruning and is an early 
flowering variety, of fair shape, not too good a centre, 
but cut young will last. It is one of the numerous 
offspring produced from the original cross with 
Rosa lutea of which Soleil d’Or was the first hybrid 
- and all of which are now called by the raiser Rosa 
pernetiana, but for sake of convenience the N.R.S. 
has placed them amongst the Hybrid Teas. 
Madame Maurice de Luze (Pernet Ducher, 1907). 
—A promising variety that one can hardly say more 
about. It is a fine large flower with large petals, a 
vigorous grower. The trade showed some excellent 
flowers last season cut from maidens but nothing 
can be said yet of its manners and customs. 
Madame Mélanie Soupert (Pernet-Ducher, 1905). 
—A very beautiful garden Rose that with high 
culture and much disbudding will yield good 
exhibition blooms, especially in a cool season. Its 
colour will make us want to exhibit it as often as 
possible as we are badly off for yellows. The petals 
are large but few in number, cut young it will keep 
its shape in the same way that Killarney does, but 
too much heat and it collapses. Some very fine. 
flowers have been exhibited this past season, notably 
the one that obtained the Silver Medal for the best 
Hybrid Tea at the National show in the Royal 
Botanical Gardens. It has been largely used by 
hybridists, but it is too soon to write about the 
