172 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



18. Palmyre. 



Branches, long and vertical. 



Flowers, middle-sized, double, regular; of a pale pink, 

 turning to flesh-colour. 



19. Belle Faber. 



Tube of calyx, ob-conical, very long, almost club- 

 shaped. 



Flowers, very large, very double, attaining five inches 

 in diameter, pink, not very regular. 



RED FLOWERS. 



20. Rose du Roi. 

 Rose Lelieur. 



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Flowers, middle-sized, bright red, often more vivid at 

 the second flowering than in the spring. 



Remarkable from its calyx, which has often six 

 sepals. 



Red-blossomed Perpetuelle. 

 Flowers, middle-sized, half-double, of a bright red. 



Philippe I. 



Shrub, vigorous, the young branches elbowed. 

 Thorns, very numerous, and fine, uneven, and rather 



bent. 



Leaves, large, composed of seven leaflets. 

 Leaflets, oval, evenly toothed; having a few thorns on 



the mid-rib. 



Tube of calyx, pear-shaped. 

 Flowers, very large, Ml, of a fine deep violet; in 



clusters of three or five. 



The following flower twice a-year. 



