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2. Single-flowered Tea Rose. 



Flowers, single, pink ; chiefly cultivated for the seed. 



3. Single Flesh-coloured Tea Rose. 

 Flowers, single, flesh-coloured ; worthy of cultivation 



for the seed. 



4. Lilac Tea Rose. 



Shrub, vigorous, having branches of a purplish green, 



and armed with numerous, straight, lilac-tinged 



thorns. 

 Leaflets, seven in number ; oblong, terminating in a 



point ; of a glossy green, edged with purple ; the 



toothing iine and inclined. 

 Flowers, large, double, regular, expanding well ; often 



in clusters ; light lilac. 

 Petals, well arranged; those of the circumference 



cordiform. 

 Fruit, larger and more elongated than those of the 



common Tea rose. 



5. Catherine II. 



Leaflets, large. 

 Flowerstalks, curved. 

 Tube of calyx, long and thick. 



Flowers, large, full, hemispherical ; flesh-coloured, 

 sometimes inclining to lilac. 



6. Full-flow ered Tea Rose. 

 Having much analogy with the preceding. 



Leaflets, smaller and green. 



Flowerstalks, less curved. 



Flowers, middle-sized, hemispherical ; flesh-coloured, 



inclining to lilac. Expanding ill in cold, damp 



weather. 



