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requires hot dry weather. Much better as a 

 standard, from which a fine maiden bloom may 

 sometimes be cut, but it is difficult to grow well, 

 and requires very good treatment. The blooms 

 almost always come well, though they are often 

 undersized ; and the shape is unique and very 

 good, with a fine point in the centre, and the petals 

 arranged in imbricated form, but standing well 

 apart from one another. This is the true form, 

 but large flowers sometimes do not show it. No 

 dressing for exhibition is required for this Kose, 

 which naturally shows itself to the best possible 

 effect. Very free-flowering : it must be well thinned 

 for the production of exhibition blooms, but even 

 the small flowers are lovely and of good lasting 

 quality. A fine colour sometimes, but this is not 

 often very lasting. Mrs. Pierpoint Morgan is an 

 American sport of this variety, of a deeper colour, 

 but it has not been found satisfactory : and Mrs. 

 Oliver Ames (May, 1902) is a paler sport of very 

 little service. 



Madame de Wa tteville (Guillot, 1883) . — A notable 

 and most distinct Eose, in habit and flower. The 

 growth as a dwarf is frequently poor, and it is 

 decidedly best as a standard. It is somewhat 

 capricious, and some good growers have but little 

 success with it ; indeed, for the first few years of 

 its existence it was, I think, only shown in its full 

 beauty by one Eosarian, but several of the leading 

 exhibitors are able to grow wonderful blooms of it 

 now. They come well, even though the buds be 

 crinkled and apparently badly shaped, and it is 

 quite a type of the " long-winged " Eoses, the great 

 petals standing out well, and giving it a most 



