284 Account of the Varieties of Double Scotch Roses. 



flowering sorts. The germen* is generally globose, but in 

 several double varieties it becomes flattened, swollen, and 

 somewhat campanulate, owing to the enlargement arising 

 from the impletion of the flower. The Jeafits of the calyx 

 (now called sepals) are quite simple, that is, without small 

 leaves or pinnae on their sides, but have generally a leavy 

 termination, more or less elongated ; when the flower opens 

 they become reflex, and more so in the double than in the 

 single varieties. 



The single flowers of the True Scotch Rose are cupped at 

 first, but subsequently the petals become more expanded ; the 

 bud, before it opens, commonly shews a bright colour; the 

 base or claw of the petals, whatever be the general co- 

 lour of the flower, is usually white or greenish yellow. The 

 scent, though very agreeable, is not so strong or fine as in many 

 other Roses. The fruit is round, or nearly so, differing in 

 size in the different varieties ; it is dark coloured, becoming, 

 when ripe, quite black, but in some plants it is of a deep 

 reddish brown. 



The Double Scotch Roses are more especially the object 

 of attention with ornamental gardeners. They are nearly 

 all strictly referable to the True Scotch Rose, or Rosa pim- 

 pinellifolia above mentioned, for the variations from the 

 type, in foliage, and mode of growth, are very trifling in 

 most of them ; the chief difference between them is in the 



* For the sake of conciseness I shall call that part which afterwards becomes 

 the fruit, the germen, as it used to be so denominated ; in later times it has 

 been a question whether it ought to be considered as the dilated receptacle of 

 the flower or the tube of the calyx, and it is thus differently described by dif- 



