The plants themselves have various habits 

 of growth. 



(a) Branching — a plant which rather than 

 improving terminally has an induce- 

 ment to set branches from many axils 

 of the shoot. 

 (&) Erect — growing straight upwards. 



(c) Dwarf — having a stunted growth. 



(d) Vigorous — a plant growing rapidly 



with strong shoots to a great height. 



(e) Pendulous — of a drooping habit, when 

 the branches cannot hold up the 

 weight of the blossoms. 



(/) Robust — of slow growth with good 



healthy shoots. 

 (g) Moderate — weakly. 



(h) Free — weakly and of a branching 

 habit. 



Probably the colour of the variety is of 

 primary interest, and this naturally occupies 

 the principal part of the description, but oddly 

 enough, is the most misleading. This diffi- 

 culty arises on account of the different shades 

 of colour found especially in tea roses, which 

 are very difficult to express to the ordinary 

 public in language easy to understand, as many 

 are extremely variable in their tints and 

 others when grown strongly come much fuller 

 in colour. However, every endeavour is made 

 to give as near a description of the colour of 

 the variety as possible, and sometimes very ac- 

 curate results are arrived at. It requires not 

 only a good eye for colour, but also a certain 

 amount of training, for an ordinary person 

 to distinguish accurately between the numer- 

 ous shades of colour our roses have. A good 

 many of the Tea roses, especially the light 



