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THE BOOK OF THE ROSE 



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buds most charmingly tinted. A really beautiful bud, 

 but a button-hole Rose should be a strong grower and 

 very free-flowering, or it is not likely to survive as one 

 of the fittest. 



Ma Cajntcine (Levet, 1871). — Another weakly grow- 

 ing button-hole Tea Rose, most charming in colour. 

 The buds are quite small, and not particularly long or 

 pointed, but sure to attract notice. These Roses should 

 all be grown, as standards, by any one who makes a 

 specialty or collection of Bud-Roses, but as there is a 

 sufficiency of strong-growing free-flowering button-hole 

 varieties, such weakly growers should generally be 

 avoided. 



Madame Angele Jacquier (Guillot, 1879).— Of fair 

 average growth, doing pretty well as a dwarf but better 

 as a standard, and requiring rich soil and high culture 

 for show uses. The blooms come pretty well, though 

 sometimes divided, and a good exhibition flower may 

 often be obtained, of fine petals, nice pointed shape, 

 and full size. The colour is not striking, and however 

 it may be described it is more white than anything else 

 when grown out of doors. At one time this Rose was 

 highly esteemed, but it has, probably from its feeble 

 colour, gone out of favour and dropped out of the 

 N.R.S. catalogue. 



Madame Berard (Levet, 1870). — One of the numerous 

 descendants of Gloire de Dijon, the majority of which 

 do not seem worthy of separate notice. This one is 

 placed in the N.R.S. catalogue as a show Rose, but it 

 is very seldom seen well exhibited. It is a beautiful 

 colour, and certainly better shaped than most of its 

 family, but is not as free -flowering or as hardy as the 

 type. 



Madame Bravy (Guillot, 1848), syns: Alba Rosea, 



