This rose has made good growth, sending-up healthy new shoots. However, a lot of the sprays are blind and any buds that do try and open are deformed. It flowered O.K. last year and 'Old Blush' and 'Hume's Blush Tea Scented China' next to it are flowering very well. Does anyone have any suggestions?

We are shown as selling this rose as "Belfield". Although we sell "Belfield" we consider the R. Indica Semperflorens ex Fineschi/Cavriglia as being a better example

The Universal Herbal, Or, Botanical, Medical, and Agricultural Dictionary p. 484 (1824)
Thomas Green
38. Rosa Semperflorens; Deep-red China Rose. Fruits oblong, with the peduncles hispid; stems and petioles prickly, hispid; leaves subternate, prickly; flowers large in proportion to the plants, semi-double, with great richness of colour, (dark red) uniting a most delightful fragrance.—They come out in succession during the winter months.— Native of China.

The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Volume 31, page 14 (1819)

[Scilla nutans; Hare-bell Squill]: "The flowers have a light sweet scent, more perceptible than in the preceding [S. campanulata], and resembling that of the Dark China Rose, Rosa semperflorens."