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" liberal treatment," they should not be pruned back 

 too closely. The variety is not hardy or long-lived, 

 and should be budded every year, preferably on the 

 briar, as, though some do well as cutbacks, maidens 

 are more to be depended on : some find it answers 

 best as a standard. Not to be recommended for 

 those who cannot give it good soil, and high culture. 

 Grand Mogul is said to be a seedling from this 

 beautiful Bose. 



Baroness Bothschild (Pernet, 1867). — Eliminated 

 by the editors of this edition. 



Beauty of Waltham (W. Paul & Son, 1862).— Fair 

 in growth and foliage, and not much liable to injury 

 from fungoid pests or rain. The blooms come true 

 and well, being seldom divided or malformed. The 

 shape varies according to situation and cultivation. 

 The N.E.S. Catalogue calls it " imbricated," and the 

 raiser " cupped " : my specimens do not come in 

 either of these forms, but the petals are very closely 

 curved inwards in the centre in a manner that pro- 

 claims the variety at once. Nevertheless it should 

 be noted that on better soil than mine it does come 

 regularly of semi-imbricated form, and is then a fine 

 flower. Like some others somewhat of this shape, 

 and those of the pointed form, this Bose has the 

 good custom of closing in and guarding its centre 

 more tightly in hot weather when it is most needed 

 than at other times. Not first-class, but a free 

 bloomer, rather late, good in lasting qualities and 

 as an autumnal, but not very large, very fragrant. 

 It has produced a seedling, Lady Arthur Hill (Dick- 

 son, 1889), of a novel shade of colour, but not large 

 enough. 



Ben Cant (B. E. Cant & Sons, 1902).— Eaised by 



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