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been and still is more popular of its type than ' Mme. Abel Chatenay/ 
and it will serve my purpose. 
1. The flower is of shapely form. 
2. It is carried well on the stalk, not too stiffly, and yet it does 
not hang its head. 
3. The colour of the petals is bright, distinct, and pleasing. 
4. The flowers are produced continuously during the season. 
5. The substance of the petals is firm and good, so that the flowers 
are not destroyed by the first shower of rain and will stand 
travelling. 
6. The flower is fragrant. 
7. The plant grows well at least when young, and has a branching 
habit, so that it will make a good bush. 
I think this concludes its good qualities. Now for some bad 
ones. 
8. The habit of the plant is not all that can be desired ; it is too 
apt to push a single strong shoot for its second growth, making 
the plant lop-sided. 
g. The foliage is rather sparse and somewhat easily attacked by 
mildew and readily by black-spot. 
10. Though individuals vary greatly, many plants are not long- 
lived. 
I. The question of form is worth a little consideration. In the 
great variety of the form of flower in the Rose, we may find more 
than one possessing attributes of beauty, and perhaps we ought not 
to be too exclusive in our appreciation, or pedantic in defining types. 
Thus among exhibition Roses we may find forms of great beauty in 
' Avoca,' ' Mme. Melanie Soupert,* * Horace Vernet,' ' Mrs. Theodore 
Roosevelt,' ' Maman Cochet,' pink and white ' Bridesmaid,' * Mrs. 
Foley Hobbs,' and ' Mrs. J. H. Welsh,' all representing slightly 
different modern forms, and ' Marie Beauman,' 'Mrs. John Laing,' and 
' A. K. Williams ' representing older forms less often seen to-day. 
There can be little doubt that the disfavour into which the 
exhibition Rose has fallen is due, at least in part, to the admission of 
really ugly types, such, for instance, as those resembling a potato 
surrounded by a collar, which, if large enough, were accorded equal 
recognition with the more beautiful forms. These ugly forms, how- 
ever, soon disappear in the hands of amateurs whose principal object 
is garden beauty, and whose views are not solely confined to the 
exhibition box, and we need not delay further with them. 
The course of development of nearly every new type of Rose 
that has been introduced has been so uniform in character that I 
think public taste may be considered as having accepted one type 
of form as the ideal, towards which improvement in this direction 
gradually approximates. This is the form with high-pointed centre 
and well-arranged reflexed petals. 
The form of the opening bud in single Roses, whether of the wild 
