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strongly Tea-scented. To a large extent it stands 

 by itself, being thoroughly distinct in growth, habit, 

 and flower, its reputed seed-parent being the most 

 like it of existing Eoses. It is of very strong 

 climbing growth, with magnificent foliage evergreen 

 under glass, but very liable to mildew. The blooms, 

 which lose colour when exposed to the sun, come 

 generally good if not exposed to cold nights in the 

 early bud stage, and are fine in petal, centre, shape, 

 colour, fragrance, and size : of fair lasting qualities 

 if kept dry and fairly cool, but apt to go before the 

 day is out in a hot exhibition tent. It is a very 

 free bloomer if treated properly, and flowers fairly 

 well throughout the autumn on standards where 

 these can be grown and flowered in the open air. 

 Like most, if not all, other yellow Eoses, instead of 

 losing colour after being cut and kept in the shade, 

 the colour deepens, but loses in brightness. Like 

 all Noisettes, the best blooms come on the long 

 secondary shoots of the previous year, which should 

 be as well ripened as possible, and left nearly of full 

 length. Though often grown on its own roots in 

 pots — for it strikes readily as a cutting — it does 

 much better if budded on the briar, preferably as a 

 standard. It is decidedly tender, being much liable 

 in the open to be injured or killed outright by severe 

 frosts ; but on a wall, particularly if there be 

 anything in the nature of a coping above, it will 

 stand ordinary winters in most localities. In such 

 a case, do not forget to give it plenty of water or 

 weak liquid manure in all dry times in the summer : 

 things growing on walls require much more water 

 than plants in the open, and often get none at all : 

 a large shallow basin-shaped depression should be 



