The shape of the bloom is to be noted.
     Globular form has the guard or outside petals encircling closely until the rose is full blown.
     Cupped has the outer petals erect or slightly incurved, the inner petals smaller, making a bloom somewhat hollow like a cup.
     Compact has all petals stiff and upright but with a center level or higher, not depressed.
     Expanded has the outer petals lying horizontal, making a flat rose. Petals in a double or full rose are often imbricated (overlapping regularly) or quartered, formed into a star shape, as some Bourbon and Tea roses are. Petals may be:
           Round ( lobular).
           Cordate heart-shaped at the outer edge).
           Truncate (cut off straight, making a triangular petal).
           Emarginate (with a definite notch in the margin).
           They may be thin in texture or thick; soft or quite stiff.

     We are ready now to take our rose in hand, saying, "What kind of a rose is this?" Take it into the left hand, and with a sharp, small-bladed knife, split it in half, from the stem upward, injuring the delicate center as little as possible. If we strip off petals and sepals, we have left only the part that concerns us at this point--a part we rarely examine, but one of great interest. We have the profile of the calyx-tube with its disc, the circular process of the tube at its top which carries the stamens and closes around the pistils. This disc is usually flat. It may be conical, rising to a point from its circular outline with the aperture at the point. Stamens are the pollenizing agents, made up of filaments attached to the disc, bearing at the free ends,
anthers, the little containers of the pollen. Pollen is the fertilizing grain. Pistils are the germinating agents, and roses have many pistils. A pistil consists of a stigma at the top onto which