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and not unfrequently are thoroughly bad with a green 

 pip in the centre. The variety has accordingly dropped 

 out of some catalogues, but I generally get some 

 beautiful blooms, large and smooth, of first-class globular 

 imbricated shape, with good petals but inclined to be 

 weak in the centre : of good size, lasting in shape but not 

 in colour, and of no use as a free bloomer or autumnal. 

 Thus this finely shaped and very distinct Rose is in 

 a fair way to be discarded, being generally too late for 

 exhibition, and too shy in blooming and weak in growth 

 to be useful for other purposes. 



Etimne, Levet (Levet, 1871). — Of robust and smooth 

 but very uncertain growth : long, strong, and stout in 

 rich soil where it has a good hold, but otherwise quite 

 short and stumpy. The foliage is very fine, and the 

 blooms come early and well with large very smooth shell- 

 like petals ; there is, or should be, a good point, but 

 the general shape is open, the centre weak, and the 

 form not lasting. Must be cut young for exhibition 

 and tied up at once, for it is not reliable in hot weather. 

 Not much injured by mildew or rain, but not good 

 as a free bloomer or autumnal. It is of large size, and 

 its grand petals and smooth even outline make it an 

 effective show Rose in a cool season : but, though it does 

 well on the manetti, for general cultivation or on weak 

 soils it is not one of the best. 



Eugene Fiirst (Soupert et Netting, 1875). — A very 

 strong grower with good foliage, liable to orange fungus, 

 and to mildew which appears even on the petals, but 

 not much injured by rain. This is a Rose whose 

 manner it is to waste all its strength upon the wood, 

 and have none to spare to swell the bud. We have 

 some Roses which promise more than they perforin, and 

 others which perform more than the}' promise. Thus, 



