304 Account of the Varieties of Double Scotch Roses. 



flower is rather too richly coloured. The plant differs much 

 from the Scotch Roses, being of taller growth, and looser 

 habit ; the branches do not grow thickly together, but de- 

 tached ; the aculei are of various sizes, and straight, but 

 they are generally small, and many are more like setae than 

 aculei ; the petioles are hairy, the foliola are not flat, but 

 folded together, and bend back at their connection with 

 the petiole ; their colour is a paler green than is usual in the 

 foliola of Scotch Roses ; they are also more elliptical and 

 more acutely serrated ; and their under surfaces are hairy. 

 The peduncles are short, not stiffly upright, thickening to- 

 wards the top, and having glandiferous setae; the germen 

 is long, ovate, and smooth, with long narrow sepals, which 

 when the flower opens, are reflected quite to the peduncle. 

 The bud is a bright pink ; the flower is large and double, 

 having a fine rich scent ; it opens cupped, and has no resem- 

 blance to the flowers of the Double Scotch Roses; the 

 centre has a very delicate and beautiful tinge of pale carmine, 

 approaching to flesh colour ; the outside petals are so much 

 paler, as to be almost white ; the interior petals gradually 

 become shorter and smaller as they approach the centre, and 

 the stamina are seen amongst them ; the petals have occa- 

 sionally a stripe of carmine in them, like to that of a carna- 

 tion, or similar to the variegation of the York and Lancaster 

 Rose. The flowers become paler after they have been some- 

 time expanded, and as they open in succession, there is a 

 great variety of appearance when the plant is in full bloom. 

 It comes into flower after the true Scotch Roses are over, 

 and is a very desirable plant for any garden. 

 The tall Scotch Rose above described, is one of the 



