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on the briar close to or under the ground, do not 
flower so well as when budded on the same stock 
a little higher—even eighteen inches will make 
a great difference—but so it certainly is; and as 
even short standards are much more difficult to 
protect effectually in severe frost, this little piece 
of bad manners is especially annoying to growers 
in low districts. It cannot be called hardy or — 
of strong constitution, particularly free in bloom, 
a good autumnal. Its colour is a very weak 
point, for the light pink shade of the bud very 
quickly fades, sometimes degenerating, when the 
form of the bloom is still at its best, into a dull 
and dirty sort of cream colour. In this matter 
it has been quite surpassed by three of the sports 
of the variety which have been issued, Bridesmaid, 
The Bride, and Muriel Grahame. For show 
purposes each of these is superior to the type 
in colour. Catherine Mermet, much grown under 
glass for market, going out of cultivation for other 
purposes. 
Cleopatra (Bennett, 1889).—A poor grower, one 
of the worst in this section. The wood is fairly 
stiff, but often thin as well as short, and it is one 
of the most difficult to propagate, as the buds are 
small and scarce, and to get two or three often 
involves sacrificing nearly the whole of the plant. 
This is one of the type of Tea Roses, of which 
Princess Beatrice is another example, which grows 
_ fairly well and fast in the spring, but makes no 
secondary growth, much less bloom, worth mention- 
‘ing. The flower buds are particularly long and 
pointed, and if fair growth can be obtained they 
open into grand blooms, retaining the fine point’ 
