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treated as a secondary consideration, and the blossoms of some of the 

 Exhibition Teas are now said to be " developed in tissue paper " ! — that 

 is to say, wrapped up in tissue paper when quite buds and allowed to 

 develop under this unnatural envelope, whereby all true brightness of 

 colour is lost. 



A slight but continuous .improvement was made up to 1861. 



From this time I speak from personal experience. 



Lacharme and others at this time began to send us varieties of Hybrid 

 Perpetuate, which were marked advances in all ways. 



At the last Conference 1 was privileged to record the rise and coming 

 to perfection of the Hybrid Perpetuals. 



1 Charles Lefebvre,' followed by 'Maurice Bernardin,' 1 Prince Caniille 

 de Rohan,' ' Mdme. Y. Verdier,' 1 Pierre Notting,' 1 Xavier Olibo,' and 

 1 Alfred Colomb,' are magnificent flowers ; gains in colour and form. 



They changed the standard of excellence, and the types used for 

 the figures in the N.R.S. Catalogue were selected from among them. 

 They remain, and probably will remain, the standard shapes of H.P. 

 Roses. 



' Pierre Notting ' is the " globular " picture cximple ; 1 Alfred Colomb ' 

 is the "globular witli high centre" type, published in the Catalogue. 



In 1HG7 another break occurred in ' Baroness Rothschild ' — the picture 

 type of the " cupped " Rose — and * La France,' a type not figured, but which 

 cannot, although it does not tit in with our accepted forms, be left out of 

 the show boxes. It was the first of the pointed flowers with folded 

 petals, of which 1 Caroline Testout,' 1 Killarney,' and ' Lady Mary Fitz- 

 william 1 are the perfected forms. 



In LS77 'A. K. Williams,' the typical "imbricated" Rose, appeared. 

 As yet no Rose has approached it. 



By 1880 the Hybrid Perpetuals as show Roses were perfected, and if 

 a list were drawn up, gains since that date would be found to be few and 

 of no serious importance as additions. Those which came, such as 

 1 Merveille de Lyon ' and ' Yictor Hugo,' were but perfected forms of, or 

 varieties of, existing types. 



The new Hybrid Teas gradually added a new feature to the boxes. Only 

 partially double, they had petals folded to a point in the centre, and if 

 tied and tho other petals dressed, that is. folded over, they added new 

 forms " teeming with points " to the types of flowers. 



Though only semi-double they lasted, after the centres were untied, long 

 enough for the judges to deem each flower worthy of three points, and 

 they soon began to take, and are still taking, a great share in prize- 

 winning. 



The French gains with stift' petals and more reflexed flowers, such 

 as 1 Antoine Rivoire,' 1 Charlotte Gillemot,' 1 Marquise Litta,' and the 

 German 1 Kaiserin Yictoria 1 and 1 Yictoria Melita,' stay on to please the 

 public at exhibitions later in the afternoon. 



Of the types — ' Killarney,' 4 Mdme. Grolez ' (fig. 152), and 1 Mrs. Grant,' 

 though quickly passing, are so beautiful that all like them. 



The 1 La France ' type, with ' Chatenay,' ' Admiral Dewey,' and 1 Vis- 

 countess Folkestone,' admirable as half-blown flowers, are wonderful 

 show Roses : they supply the place of the old bolder H.P.'s, such as 



