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deiinition of its requirements, and in all other types a 

 hollow centre is regarded as a disfigurement. The type 

 given in the N.R.S. Catalogue is Baroness Rothschild, 

 but this cannot be called a cupped form, and if it was 

 it would be considered defective. The cupped form is 

 unknown among modern Roses because the very oppo- 

 site, a high centre, much more beautiful as well as more 

 easy to attain, is now looked for. I can only remember 

 seeing one perfectly cupped bloom, and that was a 

 specimen of Anna de Diesbach H.P., a superseded 

 variety. Loelia H.P. and Coupe d'Hebe H.C. were also 

 cupped forms, but very rarely perfect. 



I find, however, that some look on the cup-shape as 

 the outward form only, i.e. the profile as viewed from 

 the side without reference to the interior. In this case, 

 the shape of a chalice would probably be meant, of 

 which Marie Verdier H.P. might be taken as a type. 

 In favour of this view, some good fellows would maintain 

 that a cu]) is in its best form — " the most perfect phase 

 of its possible beauty " — when it is not hollow but " full " 

 to the brim : some festive souls might even add that a 

 high centre, if possible, would be their ideal. But this 

 meaning of the word '■' cupped " would be different 

 from the general one in scientific and botanic nomen- 

 clature, where it always I think represents a hollow 

 and concave form. Baroness Rothschild does not seem 

 to me to represent either of these views. 



Little difference can be found between the types 

 called " globular " and " globular high centre " in the 

 N.R.S. Catalogue, and a great many phases of the 

 usual forms of Roses are meant to be included under 

 these definitions. Madame Bravy, the nearest ap- 

 proach to the "incurved" form of chrysanthemums, 

 and in a less degree Violette Bowyer H.P., would be 



