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and lasting : they are also very well shaped, but have 

 often some little disarrangement in the petals, which 

 just prevents perfection. The colour of the flowers 

 is rather mixed : in fine hot weather sometimes 

 beautiful, but often undecided and weak. Occasion- 

 ally, also, the blooms are rather coarse and rough. 

 Still, a very fine Eose and easy to grow and get good : 

 lasting and thoroughly dependable and very popular 

 for exhibition ; it succeeds very well as a dwarf, 

 and does not require close pruning : with too 

 " liberal treatment " the blooms are almost sure to 

 come divided : when laterals issue from the wood of 

 the shoot bearing the chosen bud great caution 

 should be used in suppressing them, for they are 

 the safety valves of the sap supply, and it is only on 

 weakly plants or in very hot weather that they 

 should be stopped. Said to be a seedling from 

 Catherine Mermet, but if so the other parent would 

 seem to have had a much more vigorous con- 

 stitution. 



A lemon-white sport of this Eose was issued in 

 1897, which is quite the finest and best white 

 Tea Eose of the pure pointed shape which we 

 have at present. Identical with the type in all 

 manners and customs, it has done for Maman 

 Cochet what the Bride did for Catherine Mermet — 

 corrected the weakness of colour while retaining the 

 beauty of shape and all other good qualities. It is 

 now probably the most popular of all the Exhibition 

 Teas : and thus the most highly appreciated Eoses 

 in the three classes — Frau Karl Druschki, H.P., 

 Mildred Grant, H.T., and White Maman Cochet, T. 

 — are all white. But a tinge of lemon just prevents 

 this Eose from being pure white. 



