298 Account of the Varieties of Double Scotch Roses. 



free from setae ; the germen is small and semi-globose, and 

 the sepals are small ; the bud shews a dark tinge ; the 

 flower is very small, and rather more than semi-double ; the 

 petals are beautifully marbled with lake and white, and their 

 backs shew the reticulations of their white veins over a rather 

 conspicuous purplish colour. The fruits are few, black, 

 small, and globose. This variety was received from Messrs. 

 Dicksons, brothers, of Edinburgh, by Messrs. Whitley 

 and Co. under the name of Light Marbled. It flowers late, 

 and sometimes not very well. 



The Double Bark Marbled. The peduncles are mode- 

 rately long, thin, and smooth ; the germen is semi-globose, 

 with small sepals ; the bud is of a deep purplish red ; the 

 flowers are very numerous, small, and semi-double, open- 

 ing well, and appearing very brilliant ; the interior of the 

 petals is mottled with deep purple lake on a pale ground, 

 the paleness extending more perceptibly to the edges. After 

 the flower has been some time expanded, the edges of the 

 petals become much lighter, but still remain mottled, leaving 

 the centre very distinctly marked with the darker colour, 

 which is always more intense in that part ; the yellow claws 

 shew themselves conspicuously when the flower is fully 

 opened. The backs of the petals are not so brilliant as the 

 insides, yet they are of a deep colour, and varied with white 

 lines, but do not appear mottled. The fruits are abundant, 

 rather large, black, and globose. This Rose comes into 

 tlower about the middle of the season of Scotch Roses, and 

 is perhaps the most beautiful of the whole tribe ; it has been 

 usually sold under the name of the Double Velvet, and at Mr. 

 Lee's had been also called the Petite Red Scotch. 



