The flower buds are very large and round. The scales are also 
large, thin, and of a pale green colour, very pubescent. 
The flowers are of a deep rose colour, and measure no less than four 
inches in diameter. They are particularly handsome, and well formed, 
the petals being as numerous as in the flowers of the Double White, and 
arranged in a similar manner. The outer petals are large, round, and 
spreading, a little divided, or notched, at their apex, and about an inch 
and a half in diameter. The greater number of them are roundish con¬ 
cave, and laid over one another with the utmost regularity, in close but 
distinct rows, each of which diminishes gradually, from the circumference 
to the centre of the flower, in the number, as well as in the size and form 
of its petals : the latter becoming narrow, short, and pointed, and some¬ 
what paler in colour than those at the extremity of the flower. Like the 
Double White, the centre is considerably elevated and completely filled 
with petals, forming altogether the most perfect and beautiful double 
flower, that it is possible to conceive. 
In colour and general appearance it assimilates very closely to the 
variety Imbricata, or Crimson Shell-Jlowered, lately introduced by the 
Horticultural Society, but may at once be distinguished from it, by the 
greater size of its petals, which are rather darker in colour, and notched; 
not entire, as the petals of that variety. The foliage of the two plants 
is also totally different and distinct. 
