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or hot dry and early, the variety may still be seen at 

 its best. Not liable to mildew or injured by rain, and 

 retaining its foliage well in the autumn. First-rate 

 in petal, fulness, globular pointed shape, lasting 

 qualities, size, and freedom of bloom in summer and 

 autumn, the only thing that can be said against it is 

 that the pink colour is not very decided or bright. 

 Hardy, doing fairly well in lightish soil, and excellent 

 as a standard or a dwarf, it is everybody's Rose, with 

 perhaps fewer imperfections than any other. 



Mrs. Paul (Paul & Son, 1891).— Hybrid Bourbon, a 

 seedling from Madame Isaac Pereire, but it is at present 

 a poor autumnal, and seemed likely at first to be only 

 a summer Rose, like the old H.B.s. This is, however, a 

 winner of the Gold Medal and often a really fine show 

 Rose, which none of the old H.B.s were, a most dis- 

 tinct and noteworthy flower when seen at its best. 

 The growth is very strong, and the foliage of a lovely 

 tint in the early spring and not liable to mildew. 

 Only some of the blooms come good, a certain propor- 

 tion being loose and very deficient in centre, and they 

 are often rather too flat ; but the good ones are large 

 with a fine well developed centre showing grandly 

 against broad smooth stout petals regularly imbricated. 

 The colour is rather blotchy and not very artistically 

 shaded, and the shape is not lasting, the centres re- 

 quiring to be tied for exhibition. The manners and 

 customs can hardly be said to be thoroughly established, 

 and, as some improvement has already taken place, it is 

 to be hoped that this fine Rose, when a little older, may 

 prove more free-flowering, and gain at least a better 

 reputation as an autumnal. 



Mrs. P. G. Sharman Crawford (A. Dickson and Sons, 

 1894).— This Rose gained the Gold Medal in 1893, and 



