142 THE BOOK OP ROSES. 



Tube of calyx, smooth ; top-shaped, or in the form of 



a calabash. 



Sepals, smooth, entire. 

 Flowers, large, semi-double, flesh-coloured. 



This sub-variety flowers a second time in August 

 and September. 



31. Hybrid Bur net-leafed, with large flesh- 



coloured flowers. 

 Thorns, as in the preceding. 

 Flowerstalk, hispid and glandulous. 

 Tube of calyx, oval or pear-shaped ; hispid at the base, 



smooth at the summit. 

 Flowers, large, semi-double, flesh-coloured or pale pink. 



This shrub blows only in the spring. 



32. Gurnet-leafed of the Luxembourg . 

 Flowers, large, double, flesh-coloured. 



33. Double-marbled Gurnet-leafed. 



Flowers, moderate-sized, very double ; white, marbled 

 with pink. 



34. La Gracieuse. 



Shrub, pretty vigorous ; forming a thick bush. 



Branches, spreading, reddish. 



Thorns, uneven, numerous. 



Leaves, composed of nine leaflets. 



Leaflets, small, oval or nearly round ; strongly toothed. 



Flowers, very double ; small, white at the circumfer- 

 ence, of a flesh-coloured pink towards the centre ; 

 salver-shaped ; numerous, sometimes solitary. 



Petals, cordiform, curled, regularly arranged towards 

 the centre of the flower. 



This hybrid variety is very beautiful. 



