272 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



41. Egeria. 



Branches, flexile, armed with crooked thorns. 

 Leafstalks, glandulous. 

 Leaflets, undulated and curled at the edge. 

 Flowerstalks, smooth below the floral leaves. 

 Flowers, semi-double, middle-sized ; of a vivid uniform 



flesh-colour. 

 Fruit, large, globular, blood-red. 



42. Gabrielle d'Estrees. 

 Leaflets, rather concave. 



Tube of calyx, oval-pyriform. 



Floicers, full, or double, of a pale flesh-colour, turning 

 to white. 



43. Diana of Poitiers. 



Shrub, of which the shoots are near together, armed 



with thorns intermixed with bristles. 

 Flowers, double, middle-sized ; flesh-coloured. 



44. Minette. 



Branches, smooth and spreading, furnished at the base 



with a few weak thorns and bristles. 

 Leaflets, five or seven, with one or two smaller ones 



at the foot of the odd leaflet ; notched with teeth, 



not glandulous. 



Flowerstalks, smooth below the floral leaves. * 

 Flowers, full, small, or middle-sized ; of a light pink 



with paler edges. 



Gardeners place this variety among the Provins roses. 



45. Pompon Hazard. 

 White Pompon. 

 Flesh-coloured Pompon. 

 Tomentosa Alba. 



Shrub, with leaves smooth on the upper surface. 

 Flowers, middle-sized or small ; full, flesh-coloured. 



