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mildew and orange fungus. The blooms are apt to 

 " burn " but are not much injured by rain, thin and apt 

 to show the eye, below the average size, but remarkable 

 for colour. It is still the darkest of all Roses when grown 

 strong, and velvety in the highest degree. Being much 

 the oldest of all the dark Roses of merit, it was a very 

 well known name in past years ; now however it has not 

 only been passed in the race by larger and more en- 

 during sorts, but has also apparently deteriorated in 

 itself. Though very free blooming and a good autumnal, 

 hardy, a good doer, and easily propagated, it requires to 

 be highly cultivated and grown strong to show its true 

 colour, for it will come of quite a different hue — more of a 

 scarlet crimson — on weaker shoots. It requires a cool 

 season, and came to light again wonderfully in the shows 

 of 1888, being hard to beat at any time as a very dark 

 bud for a button-hole. 



Princess Louise Victoria (Knight, 1872). — Of extra 

 strong growth, a useful pink garden Rose, sufficiently 

 strong to do for a pillar, and yet flowering freely as a 

 strong standard. 



Queen of Queens (W. Paul and Son, 1884). — Of Victor 

 Verdier race with the usual habit, but not quite so strong 

 in growth as most of them. Hardly full-sized, but of 

 nice globular form. 



Heine Marie Henriette (Levet, 1878). — A Hybrid Tea 

 Rose, of very strong climbing growth, with good foliage, 

 not much liable to mildew or to injury from rain : very 

 free-flowering and a capital autumnal. Being brighter 

 than Cheshunt Hybrid, this Rose has been for a long time 

 considered the best of the red climbers, and is some- 

 times, most incorrectly, called a red Gloire de Dijon. 

 The Waltham Climbers (W. Paul and Son, 1885), of 

 which No. 1 is the brightest and No. 3 the best 



