260 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE chap. 



" burns " in hot weather. The blooms will only 

 come fine if strong shoots are produced and this is 

 a difficult task with purchased plants, as the consti- 

 tution is weak and does not bear removal well. It 

 is best to bud it annually ; but plants which have not 

 been moved will sometimes do well as cutbacks for a 

 few seasons. It requires high culture on briar and 

 is not free-flowering or good as an autumnal, but it 

 is a fine, well-built bloom when you get it good, with 

 stout petals, high centre, fine globular outline, full size 

 and dark, sometimes rather dull, colour. The flowers 

 being heavy and the wood weak, flowering shoots of 

 dwarfs should be staked when the bud is formed. 

 The lasting powers of the blooms are particularly 

 good, and it is worthy of notice, as an example of the 

 odd manners and customs of Roses, that some of the 

 weakest growers have the most lasting flowers, and 

 vice versa. For instance. Marquis de Mortemart 

 and Madame Ducher, two H.P.s that have dropped 

 out of cultivation from their extreme poorness of 

 growth, were especially noted for the lasting 

 character of their blooms, while such strong growers 

 as Heinrich Schultheis and Thomas Mills show the 

 opposite side of the picture. Louis Van Houtte will 

 not do with me : a respectable bloom even on strong 

 shoots is a rarity : but many others grow it well and 

 esteem it highly. For anything but exhibition 

 purposes, however, it should be avoided. 



Madame Charles Crapelet (Fontaine, 1859). — 

 Eliminated by the editors of this edition. 



Madame Eughie Verdier (Verdier, 1878).— Grows 

 well as a maiden, but the first growths of cutbacks 

 are sometimes very short ; still the blooms come 

 just as well, and the foliage is fine. The constitution 



