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much alike, and therefore synonymous. The foliage is fair 

 and the growth good but characteristic and peculiar. 

 One or two shoots run away considerably above the 

 others and give promise of good blooms, and when the 

 bud forms, it is of very good typical shape and seldom 

 comes cracked or divided ; but now, when you expect the 

 plant to put all its strength into the bud, it does not do 

 so ; the stem thickens at the base, and tempting buds 

 for budding form all up the stem, but the flower buds 

 swell very little, although they open slowly. The bloom, 

 though sometimes of fail' average size, is smaller and 

 weaker than one would expect from the size of the shoot, 

 but the shape is quite first-class, with a round smooth 

 button in the centre, the petals perfectly imbricated, 

 and the outline regular. It is quite one of the three 

 or four best examples of the imbricated form among 

 H.P.s. The bloom is not very lasting, the colour though 

 striking in its very deep shade is sometimes rather dull, 

 and it cannot be called a free bloomer or reckoned as a 

 good autumnal. Decidedly liable to mildew, which 

 sometimes affects the jDetals. A late bloomer, which is 

 well worth gTowing if only for its thoroughly distinct 

 appearance in many particulars. 



Jcannie Dickson (A. Dickson and Sons, 1890). — 

 Apparently hybridised, though perhaps remotely, with 

 the Teas, the shape of the foliage suggesting some such 

 strain. A good grower, but requires generous treat- 

 ment, not liable to mildew or much injured by rain, free- 

 flowering and pretty good in the autumn. The blooms 

 have capital long large smooth petals, with centres high 

 and finely pointed. Not very lasting, and difficult to 

 keep clean in trying weather, but a fine show flower if 

 grown strong, cut young, and tied up if necessary. 



John Hopper (Ward 1862). — A well-known and 



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