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Abel Grand (Damaizin, 1865). — A useful early garden Rose of very strong stiff hardy growth, with fine foliage, and stout and numerous thorns. This is a good type of the "garden" Rose, as, though its flowers are not good enough for show, the plant is vigorous and hardy, doing fairly well in poor soil, strong of constitution, not liable to fungoid pests, and flowering freely in summer and in autumn. The pink blooms are of large size, open and flat and rather weak in the centre, not very lasting, and with thin petals. It has sported once or twice to a lighter shade, one of these variations having been fixed and named "Bessie Johnson," and a climbing sport of this has also been issued.

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Teas and Noisettes.
Adam (Adam, 1833). — Syn. President (Paul & Son, 1860). Of poor growth and small reputation. The blooms are large, globular and very sweet, but loose and untrustworthy, and the sort is of little value as a free-flowerer or autumnal.

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Aimée Vibert (Vibert, 1828). — A true Noisette, showing it by its hardiness and clusters of small flowers. Very strong growing, rambling, and practically ever green, though a severe winter may destroy the foliage. The climbing form should be chosen when it is used for pillars or walls, as the original strain was of less vigorous growth. The blooms are quite small, full and rosette-like, but it is not so effective as a white cluster climbing Rose as some of the Ayrshires and Evergreens.

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Alphonse Soupert (Lacharme, 1883). — Very thorny growth, but not strong with me. This Rose is included in the exhibition sorts in the N.R.S. Catalogue, but the blooms are rather loose and by no means first-class. They are large and may be valued where the first Roses are esteemed, as they are quite among the earliest. The petals are rather thin, and the shape is somewhat uncertain: still it is said to be a "showy" Rose, which in catalogue-English generally means "showy at a distance," i.e. that it will not bear a close inspection. Said by some to be a good pot Rose.

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Teas and Noisettes.
Amazone (Ducher, 1872). — Of rather poor slender growth, with long pointed buds of a good deep yellow, a colour which is still much wanted in this class. Some of the Teas are only valued in the bud state, for cutting and market purposes, and those that have long slender buds are much more suitable and graceful for decoration and wreaths than the globular sorts. They are useful for this purpose, even if the shape be poor when fully opened. Amazone has however, much helped by its colour, been occasionally shown success fully; but it is very loose and wanting in centre, of no value as a free bloomer or autumnal, and can by no means be reckoned among the best.

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Anna de Diesbach (Lacharme, 1858). — Of very strong hardy growth, but has the same fault of general looseness and unevenness in the blooms. They are of the largest size and more or less of the true cupped shape, but a perfect one is a rarity.

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Teas and Noisettes.
Anna Olivier (Ducher, 1872). – A good grower with bright foliage, but the secondary shoots from the base are much stouter and longer than the spring growth. It does better as a dwarf than perhaps any other of this class; quite as well, many think, as on a standard. All the Teas are liable to be spoiled by rain, the petals sticking together and then decaying. Those which are fullest and stoutest in petal are the worst in this respect, and this Rose, being inclined to be thin and not so full as some, does not suffer perhaps so much. The blooms usually come well, it being the case with the Teas, as with the HPs that the largest and strongest blooms are the most likely to come divided or otherwise malformed. A lovely Rose of the charming pointed shape and capable of reaching a full size: it requires to be grown very strong to be fit for exhibition, but is then very effective. The colour varies very much, a terra-cotta tint, generally present at the base of the petals, sometimes attaining to a more lively shade and covering nearly the whole bloom. The presence of iron in the soil is said by the Revd. F. R. Burnside, a high authority on Tea Roses and an excellent exhibitor, to account for the extra prevalence of this shade of colour. Not in general a Rose of lasting qualities for a Tea, though its extreme freedom of bloom throughout the season, vigour of growth, and fair amount of hardiness should combine to give it a place in almost every list.

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Annie Laxton (Laxton, 1869). — A garden Rose, with good growth, unusually fine foliage, and strong constitution. Not liable to mildew or much injured by rain. One of the earliest, sometimes good enough for exhibition, a free bloomer and good autumnal. The flowers are of fair size and bright colour, somewhat flat and often irregular in shape, with rather thin petals.

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"Manners and Customs"
Hybrid Perpetuals
Annie Wood (E. Verdier, 1866). — Here we have a Rose with manners and customs (fortunately) peculiar to itself. It is a fine strong grower, with fair foliage, liable to mildew and orange fungus, but not much injured by rain. A great quantity of buds form on each stem: the top bud of all, which one would naturally reserve, is nearly always cracked, hollow, and distorted before it is much bigger than a thimble, and sometimes has a great green pip in the centre. You may search for the best-shaped bud, and do away with all the others for its sake. Even then, nine out of ten buds will show a great eye before they are more than half expanded, and the tenth will do it soon after being cut. You make up your mind to discard the sort altogether: but, just at the close of the season, a beautiful bloom makes its appearance on a shoot you had not noticed, with brilliant colour, full size, delightful fragrance, and good imbricated shape- a lovely Rose: and the plants are spared to serve you just the same trick another season. The title of this chapter being what it is, it seems impossible to avoid sooner or later bringing in the time-honoured anecdote of the traveller who, describing the "manners and customs" of some native tribes he had been visiting, was constrained to dismiss one of them with the terse remark, "manners none- customs disgusting." If it be possible to say anything so bad of a Rose, I am doubtful whether a better example than Annie Wood can be found for such a description in the N.R.S. Catalogue. The good blooms come generally on old plants- it is of no use as a maiden. It should not be pruned too severely- a rule that generally applies to all those which are not good as maidens.

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Auguste Rigotard (Schwartz, 1871). — Of fair growth, with smooth wood, and fine foliage. Not particularly liable to mildew or orange fungus. A late light red Rose, sometimes very fine, good in autumn, but having no private peculiarities.