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Josephine Malton, and Madame de Sertot. Of average 

 growth and fair foliage, very sweet, growing pretty 

 well as a dwarf, but perhaps giving better flowers as a 

 standard. The blooms come very well, but the shape 

 is absolutely globular, almost like an incurved chrysan- 

 themum, and such a form requires the utmost regularity, 

 and shows at a glance the slightest imperfection. The 

 wood is pliable, and the blooms are therefore pendent, 

 and can only be seen in perfection when artificially 

 supported in a vase or Rose-stand. A very free- 

 bloomer, requiring a good deal of thinning, but the 

 autumnal buds rarely expand fully. It is of large size 

 for the growth of the shoots, but owing to the globular 

 shape and very short outer petals loses much in this 

 respect when compared with other Roses, " long-winged " 

 as I have called them, whose outer petals are large and 

 stand well away. This Rose seems to have deteriorated 

 somewhat of late years ; it is certainly much less shown 

 than it used to be, but perhaps this is simply from its 

 becoming superseded for the reasons mentioned. 



Madame Charles (Damaizin, 1864). — An improved 

 strain of Safrano, which see. 



Madame Chddane Guinoisseau (Leveque, 1880). — This 

 is another of the button-hole Roses of moderate growth. 

 The buds are pointed and well shaped, and the colour 

 is bright yellow, a shade not sufficiently represented 

 among exhibition Teas. 



Madame Cusin (Guillot, 1881). — Of short, thick, and 

 often weak growth, with distinct wood and small 

 foliage. It is rather liable to mildew and requires hot 

 dry weather. Much better as a standard, from which a 

 fine maiden bloom may sometimes be cut, but it is 

 difficult to grow well and requires very good treatment. 

 The blooms almost always come well, though they are 



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