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(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Baldwin is sometimes called a pink Kaiserin. It is a good rose, requiring thinning and feeding for exhibition. It sometimes fails to open, and is readily spoiled as a bloom by rain.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Catherine Mermet is an excellent rose, a little more refined in shape, as a rule, than Madam Cochet, and nothing like so good a grower. Catherine Mermet is the parent stock of many of our very finest roses. Waban, The Bride, Muriel Grahame, Bridesmaid, are all sports of it, while Maman Cochet and a host of others carry the blood as seedlings.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Comptesse de la Barthe, commonly called Countess Bertha, is one of the most widely grown roses, and for garden decoration is worth a place in any general collection.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Comtesse Riza du Parc is one of the best of garden roses, though with growers partial to well-formed blooms it cannot be a favourite. It is, moreover, prone to mildew.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Dr. Cazeneuve is a new dark rose, well worth growing in the garden, but is of the flat type.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Empress Alexandra of Russia has a very distinctive shade of colour, and is a good all-round rose, but fails to hold up her head to face the world.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. General Billot is often good enough for show, but the colour is a little dull.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. The new Grass au Leptiz [sic] is very fine for garden decoration, very free in bloom, fragrant, and rich in colour.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Lord Tarquin is a rose of much merit for all purposes, and belongs to the Mermet type of flower.
(1 Jul 1904) Page(s) 19. Louis Leveque bears an abundance of bloom, very variable in shade, but having a very large proportion of misshapen flowers. Scarcely any rose is so subject to malformation.
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