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used in the N.R.S. Catalogue are unsatisfactory. 
Five types were originally set out :—imbricated, 
slobular, globular high centre, cupped, and flat. 
“‘Tmbricated ” is a term with which no fault need 
be found, if no plainer English word that all 
gardeners would understand could be hit on. It 
implies that the petals are regularly and thoroughly 
reflexed (bent back) upon each other, with a “ pip”’ 
in the centre, like the flowers of a Camellia. 
A. K. Williams, H.P., and especially Mrs. Paul, B., 
are good examples of this shape. It is the shape 
of a “ Rosette,’ but not many “ little Roses”’ are 
of this form, though Boule de Neige, H.N., and the 
small flowers of Ethel Brownlow, T., are capital 
Rosettes. There are several gradations in this 
form, some being half-imbricated, and some with 
the outer petals only regularly and completely 
reflexed. Madame Cusin, T.,is a form which would 
be imbricated, but that the petals, instead of lying 
close, stand apart from each other. 
“Globular”? is a term which may perhaps be 
fairly applied to Madame Bravy, T., which at its 
best is hke an incurved chrysanthemum, and even to 
such varieties as Violette Bowyer or Hclair, H.P.s. 
The latter is of the cabbage form, no longer 
esteemed. Baroness Rothschild and its race should 
also approach this form. But the N.R.S. Catalogue 
eives it, for instance, to Maurice Bernardin, which 
is just the common shape of an ordinary crimson 
H.P. It is plain that in this and many other cases 
the term is quite a misnomer, the flower being 
roughly the shape of a hemisphere or half a globe, 
semiglobular. 
“Globular”? or (as I think it should be) semi- 
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