296 Account of the Varieties of Double Scotch Roses. 



flowers are middle-sized ; expand well ; and the petals, which 

 are much notched, are somewhat reflexed, a circumstance 

 which gives additional beauty to the flower ; the inside of 

 the petals is a fine rose colour, sometimes slightly mottled, 

 becoming gradually paler as it approaches the edges, where 

 it is nearly white; the claws shew much yellow, and the 

 outside of the petals is very pale. This is a very beautiful 

 Rose; it grows tall, flowers plentifully, and opens early. The 

 fruits are abundant, large, black, and compressed. The 

 aculei on the branches are rather stronger than usual in 

 Scotch Roses, they are much expanded as well as flattened 

 at their bases ; but I have another plant which produces 

 flowers similar to those here described, in which the aculei 

 are not so strong. 



The Double Light Red is also an early variety, blossoming 

 soon after the Double Red. Its peduncles are generally 

 smooth, but sometimes there is a slight hispidity on them ; 

 the germen is semi-globose, and the sepals rather long ; the 

 buds shew but little colour, and the flower, when opened, 

 is more cupped than that of the preceding, and less brilliant 

 in its colour, which, instead of being purely rose, is tinged 

 with a purplish hue, and the whole is paler ; the petals, when 

 opened fully, have rather a confused appearance, and shew 

 much of their pale backs. The fruits are black, few in num- 

 ber, small and globose, with a slightly extended neck. This 

 Rose has much affinity to the Light Marbled in the next sec- 

 tion ; it might, without impropriety, be called the Pale Pur- 

 ple Red, but the name under which I have described it seems 

 generally to have been attached to it in the nurseries. 



The Double Dark Red has short, thick, hispid peduncles, 



