Thank you, Ingrid! I haven't grown HdB in awhile but decided to add her to my striped rose collection. She was always healthier for me than Variegata de Bolgna. As I recall she gave me remontancy, as Zephirine Drouhin does, but in our current climate, who knows? Time will tell. Maybe I'll just enjoy the foliage! :-) I also prefer DdB's flower to many modern stripes. I am taking a gamble on the striped Tea, Madame Driout. I've never grown her, but decided to give her whirl as one of my few roses in that class. I've only seen one bloom, but it was intriguing--darker pink than HdB and globular as it unfurled. Really quite pretty! I may attempt to post a photo (I shudder at the thought of trying) of DdB, MD and Clotilde Soupert in a vase. I hope Cecil is continuing to heal! Carol

@David Chang test again

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Salt inhibits yeast. It delays activation, slows growth, and if there's too much (rare) can kill the yeast. I don't know what "next to" means. Salt soaks up liquid. Yeast granules require liquid to activate. Recipes that have you prove the yeast first add the salt later. Other recipes are meant to keep the process simple and dump everything together, with the quantity of yeast adjusted to work in a given period of time to a particular level of rise even with the salt there. That is, a lot of recipes use more yeast to make up for it, and many dump in a whole packet for convenience when half would be more than plenty. If you have older, colder yeast, it might need more time anyway. You can always change the method to suit yourself,