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in evidence. "Chas. Binder," "Dr. Bretonneau," and "Felix Crousse" 

 are typical examples of this class. 



Semi-rose. — As noted before, this class was created to include certain 

 varieties which have been formerly classed as Semi-double, but which 

 are more nearly the true rose type than any other, with the exception 

 of a few concealed stamens scattered throughout the bloom. The 

 carpels are usually entirely transformed, and in fact the only point 

 which prevents this class from being included in the rose type is the 

 presence of an occasional pollen-bearing stamen. This seems to be 

 a stable characteristic, however, and therefore the committee propose 

 this class to include such varieties as "Mons. Martin Cahuzac" and 

 "Madame Jules Calot," rather than do these varieties the injustice of 

 classing them in the semi-double group, which is understood to include 

 varieties of a more loose make up, with many visible stamens, as "Ful- 

 gida," and "Marie Jacquin." 



Rose. — The rose is the common type of the fully double bloom. In 

 it all the stamens and carpels are fully transformed into more or less 

 evenly arranged petaloids. They may not in every case be indistinguish- 

 able from the guard petals, but when the guards are quite distinct it 

 would be called a bomb. The line dividing the rose and the bomb 

 is thus seen to be quite an arbitrary one. 



"Festiva Maxima," "Madame Lemoinier," and "Eugene Verdier" 

 are very good illustrations of the rose type. 



Each of these divisions, based on form, may be again divided on a 

 basis of color, as white, shell pink, solferino, crimson, magenta, yellow, 

 and the like. In this preliminary report, however, we have divided 

 them, into only three general classes on the basis of color. White, Pink, 

 and Red. As the work advances and the technical color terminology 

 is better understood by the growers, it will no doubt be desirable to 

 make this color division more definite. 



CORRECTIONS TO BULLETIN 259 



Corrections have been made in certain cases in which the descrip- 

 tions in Bulletin 259 are incorrect. In the majority of cases, however, 

 the descriptions here given are merely more typical of the variety in 

 question. In dealing with this very changeable species, it is not strange 

 that some of the descriptions made when the work was first under- 

 taken should need correction as the study advances. As is noted in 

 the introduction the plants do not bear typical blooms, characteristic 

 of the variety, until the clump is well established. 



