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growers were sold out quite early in the season. 

 The colour, its most striking feature, is very variable, 

 from shrimp pink to salmon without any shading of 

 that yellow which is such a conspicuous feature in the 

 typical flower, and makes it such a striking object 

 in the centre of an exhibition box. It is a vigorous 

 grower, that requires hard pruning and is an early 

 flowering variety, of fair shape, not too good a centre, 

 but cut young will last. It is one of the numerous 

 offspring produced from the original cross with 

 Bosa lutea of which Soleil d'Or was the first hybrid 

 and all of which are now called by the raiser Bosa 

 pernetiana, but for sake of convenience the N.E.S. 

 has placed them amongst the Hybrid Teas. 



Madame Maurice de Luze (Pernet Ducher, 1907). 

 — A promising variety that one can hardly say more 

 about. It is a fine large flower with large petals, a 

 vigorous grower. The trade showed some excellent 

 flowers last season cut from maidens but nothing 

 can be said yet of its manners and customs. 



Madame Melanie Soupert (Pernet-Ducher, 1905). 

 ■ — A very beautiful garden Bose that with high 

 culture and much disbudding will yield good 

 exhibition blooms, especially in a cool season. Its 

 colour will make us want to exhibit it as often as 

 possible as we are badly off for yellows. The petals 

 are large but few in number, cut young it will keep 

 its shape in the same way that Killarney does, but 

 too much heat and it collapses. Some very fine 

 flowers have been exhibited this past season, notably 

 the one that obtained the Silver Medal for the best 

 Hybrid Tea at the National show in the Eoyal 

 Botanical Gardens. It has been largely used by 

 hybridists, but it is too soon to write about the 



