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used in the N.E.S. Catalogue are unsatisfactory. 

 Five t3rpes were originally set out : — imbricated, 

 globular, globular high centre, cupped, and flat. 



" Imbricated " is a term with which no fault need 

 be found, if no plainer English word that all 

 gardeners would understand could be hit on. It 

 implies that the petals are regularly and thoroughly 

 reflexed (bent back) upon each other, with a " pip " 

 in the centre, like the flowers of a Camellia. 

 A. K. Williams, H.P., and especially Mrs. Paul, B., 

 are good examples of this shape. It is the shape 

 of a " Bosette," but not many " little Eoses " are 

 of this form, though Boule de Neige, H.N., and the 

 small flowers of Ethel Brownlow, T., are capital 

 Eosettes. There are several gradations in this 

 form, some being half-imbricated, and some with 

 the outer petals only regularly and completely 

 reflexed. Madame Cusin, T., is a form which would 

 be imbricated, but that the petals, instead of lying 

 close, stand apart from each other. 



" G-lobular " is a term which may perhaps be 

 fairly applied to Madame Bravy, T., which at its 

 best is like an incurved chrysanthemum, and even to 

 such varieties as Violette Bowyer or Eclair, H.P.s. 

 The latter is of the cabbage form, no longer 

 esteemed. Baroness Eothschild and its race should 

 also approach this form. But the N.E.S. Catalogue 

 gives it, for instance, to Maurice Bernardin, which 

 is just the common shape of an ordinary crimson 

 H.P. It is plain that in this and many other cases 

 the term is quite a misnomer, the flower being 

 roughly the shape of a hemisphere or half a globe, 

 semiglobular. 



" Globular " or (as I think it should be) semi- 



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