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this will. A good and reliable cool season Rose, of 

 strong hardy constitution, which will grow almost 

 anywhere and well repay good treatment. 



Earl ofDufferin (A. Dickson & Sons, 1887).— Of long 

 but pliable growth, which, in the case of dwarfs, must 

 be staked, or the heavy bloom will bend the shoot right 

 down to the ground. The foliage is rather weak, and 

 the buds even when they begin to open do not look 

 promising or attractive. Nevertheless they slowly grow 

 into large highly coloured blooms of thoroughly globu- 

 lar shape, sweet-scented, lasting, and sometimes very 

 fine. It is quite a late Rose, not very free-flowering, 

 nor of much use as an autumnal. Its principal fault 

 is roughness of outline, as the true globular shape is 

 most exacting in this respect, and this sort does not 

 often come well with me. A Rose for exhibitors, but not 

 for garden culture. 



Earl of Fcmhroke (Bennett, 1882). — Of fair thorny 

 growth, late, and a distinct shade of colour ; a free 

 bloomer, rather thin in petal, and only worth class- 

 ing for its value in autumn, when it is often at its 

 best. 



Eclair (Lacharme, 1883). — Worthy of notice, as being 

 a good specimen of the true globular form which is 

 rather unusual. The growth is good, the colour very 

 bright, the form lasting, and it is also very good in the 

 autumn. It is difficult to get perfectly-shaped blooms 

 of this form, and they are best avoided by the beginner. 



Ella Gordon (W. Paul & Son, 1884).— A brighter 

 form of Madame Victor Verdier, with the same manners 

 and customs. 



Emilie Hausbcrg (Leveque, 1868) — A rather weakly 

 groAver, with characteristic very green wood and foliage, 

 not much liable to mildew. The blooms come very late, 



