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a " Dijon" rose, with the manners and customs of the 

 family. The best coloured of them all, being really a 

 good yellow. The blooms are not very large, though 

 full and good, and it is not so free-flowering or anything 

 like so hardy as its parent, as it is one of the tenderest 

 of Roses. Late in flowering, and best in autumn. 

 Note that there is a H.P. of exactly the same name. 



Madame Falcot (Guillot, 1858). — A button-hole Rose, 

 of fair growth and foliage, useful in the bud state only. 

 It is somewhat like Safrano, of deeper and brighter 

 colour, and altogether better in bloom, but less hardy, 

 of less vigorous growth, and not so free-flowering. A 

 lovely bud, the exterior of the outer petals having often 

 the most charming combinations of red and yellow, the 

 inner petals being of a beautiful self-yellow. A good 

 autumnal, but does not do well as a dwarf, and requires 

 protection in the winter. 



Madame Hvppolyte Jamain (Guillot, 1869). — Of good 

 growth strong enough for a low wall, which suits it well 

 — not liable to mildew and can stand just a shower. 

 The blooms come late and generally well, though 

 occasionally divided, and the flower stalks are pliable, so 

 that the blooms are completely pendent. The real 

 beauty of the flowers is thus quite concealed on the 

 plant, and few who have only seen it as growing would 

 believe what a beautiful flower it is when properly 

 shown at the right stage. At this period the outer 

 petals fall well down when the bloom is held up, 

 showing the purest glistening white on their inner 

 sides, and a most charmingly tinted and shaped conical 

 centre. Afterwards, in very hot weather or on a wall, 

 it expands to quite a flat shape with a much yellower 

 colour, and many would not recognise it as the same 

 Rose ; but it may be thoroughly depended on to last 



