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possible to show it in very hot weather. It has even 

 been recommended that it be planted in a shady 

 spot. Large in size, not much liable to fungoid 

 pests or to come malformed, and a grand Eose for 

 pot-work and forcing. 



Charles Lefehvre (Lacharme, 1861). — Synonyms, 

 Marguerite Brassac and Paul Jamain. Of strong 

 growth, with stout stiff smooth wood and fine foliage, 

 requiring strong soil. The secondary shoots are 

 much stronger than the early ones, and on cutbacks 

 the latest blooms of the first crops are generally the 

 best, the first buds being most liable to injury from 

 cold nights in May. More liable to orange fungus 

 than to mildew, and can stand rain pretty well. 

 The flowers generally come good, fine in petal, 

 centre, and size, lovely in colour, very fragrant and 

 beautifully smooth and round in appearance. The 

 shape is open and semi-imbricated, which is very 

 effective, but not a good form to last. Free in 

 bloom and a good autumnal, this was for many years 

 the G.O.M. of the dark crimson Eoses. 



Clio (W. Paul & Son, 1894) .—Eliminated by the 

 editors of this edition. 



Commandant Felix Faure (Boutigny, 1902). — A 

 hardy vigorous grower with very large^f oliage and free 

 flowering — but the flowers, excellent otherwise, are 

 on the small side for exhibition purposes — still their 

 wonderful colour (dark crimson, shot vermilion) 

 makes the plant worth noting, more particularly as 

 the colour is more lasting than the majority of Eoses 

 of this shade. Useful as a front row flower — but 

 must be severely disbudded. 



Comte de Baimhaud (Eoland, 1867). — A reliable 

 full-sized rose of good form and colour, with good 



