Abstract: A miniature rose variety having compact plant habit which blooms at two feet or less, petals with pink upper sides and deeper pink lower sides, large prickles, good mildew resistance, and mild fragrance.

Abstract: A hybrid tea rose variety having orange-red bud and bloom color, pointed bud form, straight and stiff stems, and large foliage.

Abstract: A peach tree particularly characterized by its fruit, when fully ripe, having very firm, non-melting flesh which, in most fruit, is completely free of color, the free being further characterized by having large showy blossoms and by bearing clingstone fruit which has superior shipping and keeping qualities, which ripens approximately 20 days earlier than fruit of the Nectar Peach Tree (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 86), and which has an attractive skin coloration.

Abstract: In a mortar comprising an inorganic binder, water and a sulphonated phenol condensation product modifier therefor, the improvement wherein said condensation product comprises a formaldehyde condensation product of a phenol wherein at least about 40% of the phenolic OH groups are etherified with an alkylating agent, the condensation product being present in about 0.05 to 5% by weight of the binder. Advantageously the condensation product is of the formula ##STR1## in which R is H, C.sub.1-6 -alkyl, C.sub.1-12 -aralkyl, C.sub.1-4 -monohydroxy or dihydroxy alkyl, of C.sub.3-4 -hydroxy .[.chloralkyl.]. .Iadd.chloroalkyl.Iaddend., less than 40% of the R groups being H,X is H, CH.sub.2 --SO.sub.3 M, CH.sub.2 OH, CH.sub.2 --R' or NR'.sub.4, at least about half the X groups being CH.sub.2 --SO.sub.3 M,M is Na, K, Ca/2 or Mg/2,R' is H, C.sub.1-4 -alkyl, C.sub.2-4 -hydroxy alkyl, or another structural unit of the formula (I)andn is at least 3.

Abstract: A lubricant composition for use alone or in a lubricating base, comprising a finely divided carbonate of Group IIA metal and a halogenated organic lubricant.