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Abbé Girardin (bourbon, Bernaix) is a pretty, light [coloured] Bourbon-rose; fine form; expanded, expands easily and blooms faithfully, but has too thin petals, is therefore not lasting. Rank: 2-3.
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Albert de Blotais (hybrid perpetual, Moreau-Robert) . Dark velvety violet; fragrant, finely formed, loosely filled, expanded, medium size bloom; dark foliage. Rank: 2.
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Alfred Leveau (hybrid perpetual, Vigneron) belongs to the V. Verdier-race. It has short canes, reddish tips, a large bloom, which is not better than the matadors of this clan. Dispensable. Rank 3.
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Alphée Dubois (hybrid perpetual, Fontaine) is no more than Préfet Limbourg according to bloom, wood and foliage. I saw the rose at Lambert & Reiter, Soupert & Notting and at Gebrüder Ketten. Away with the false Préfet.
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The Roses of 1881... American Banner (tea, china?, G. Cartwright) has only value due to its fine tea fragrance and the lilac-carmine-red stripes on the outer petals, the inside of the petals is chamois-pink passing to whitish pink; fluttery; too weak canes for standards. Rank 2-3.
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Ampère (hybrid perpetual, Liabaud) should not have been commercialized by Liabaud. The medium-size purple-violet bloom which fades greatly, has no filling, descends from Lion des Combats. Rank: 3-4.
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Anicet Bourgeois (hybrid perpetual, Moreau & Robert) ranks higher [than Alfred Leveau]. It is said to descend from Sénateur Vaïsse x Mme. Victor Verdier, which is to be doubted, as no one has crossed blooms which are so close together. The wood is smooth, foliage large and glossy; the somewhat drooping bloom is globular, finely formed; fragrant; cherry-red passing to lilac like most varities of the Sén. Vaisse-group. Vigorous. Colour and fragrance of A. Colomb, but not its form. Rank 2.
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The Roses of 1881... Antoine Devert (tea, Gonod) belongs to the Mme. Bérard or Gloire-de Dijon-race, is of noble cup form, fragrant, flesh-coloured with salmon-yellow center, but not characteristically different tahn others of its clan. As precursor of Beauté de l?Europe it had to be monetarized before the latter was introduced. Rank 2-3.
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Archiduchesse Elisabeth d'Autriche (hybrid perpetual, Moreau-Robert) is similar to La Reine and something in the middle between Souvenir de la Reine d'Anglettere [sic] and Elisabeth Vigneron. The bloom is initially globular, then disc-formed; however the centre is as with most flat blooms (Elisabeth Vigneron, etc.) underdeveloped or tangled, curled; fragrant; fine foliage, long-growing. Rank: 2-3.
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The Roses of 1881... Auguste Buchner (hybrid perpetual, Lévèque) belongs to the better roses of the year. Bushy habit; reddish-grey wood, densely armed with red prickles; foliage large, rough. Large bloom, loosely filled, fine form, purple-crimson with dark velvet; flat, short-cut petals, little fragrance. Rank 2-3.
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