laciniated stipules of Multiflora; rather they are edged with glands and have free spreading tips. Styles are slightly coherent; leaflets, 7 to 9, are quite glabrous. Inflorescence is many rose-red blooms in a corymb.
     When the Tea rose was crossed into the smaller-flowered Noisette, noticeable differences occurred. Foliage is usually long and very beautiful, in quite a range of green, often copper shaded. The large fuller blooms are fragrant, and suggestive of Tea forms. Blooms occur in corymbs of S to 6, at the extremities of the long laterals, herein following the Musk ancestor in blooming on side shoots.

     From this point the roses we consider as related to R. indica bloom but once a season.

     R. Lheritierana, the Boursault rose, is said to be a cross of Chinensis and Alpina. It has fairly tall (to 10 feet), bending, apparently unjointed stalks, sunburned to red or brown where exposed, with no prickles unless at the base of old wood, carrying leaflets simply but deeply toothed, often entire at the base, with stipules broad upward ending in free deltoid tips, forming a triangle. Blooms usually are in rich cherry-red and crimson to purple shades, in little clusters on laterals.

     Hybrid China roses constitute a group of sturdy bushes of different heights, usually upright, sometimes arching, which bloom for five to six weeks. They were created by crossing the various Chinese everblooming roses with the different June-blooming roses, more often Gallica and Centifolia varieties. As within this scope there was a general intermixing, the Hybrid China roses, as a class, fall into three parts.

     Hybrid Chinas are those showing predominantly the China rose features in foliage, prickles and bloom. Rivers' George the Fourth, found in old gardens, is a Hybrid China.
     Hybrid Bourbons are those partaking more of the foliage and other features of the Bourbon rose. Coupe d'Hebe is a Hybrid Bourbon.
     Hybrid Noisettes are those in which the foliage and clustering of the Noisette prevail. Mme. Plantier is called by some authorities a Hybrid Noisette.

GALLICAE ROSES

     Botanists have agreed in grouping the four great June-blooming roses under the heading of Gallicae. These roses have the low-set stigmas and styles included within the calyx-tube. Gallicae roses fall into two groups as to prickles and foliage: Those with unequal prickles (large and small mixed) and leaflets glandular-serrate are Gallica and Centifolia.
     R. gallica has dull green leaflets that are firm, leathery and rugose. (Authorities differ about their serrations being glandular.) The bushes grow to 3 feet on the average and are quite stiffly erect, with weaker prickles than any of the others. Blooms of the type are double, rose-red, somewhat fragrant, one to three, boldly upright, with glandular peduncles. Gallica roses are so hardy and

are such good seed-bearers that many varieties in pink, red, purple, striped, spotted, marbled, double, very double and full, may be found.
     R. gallica versicolor, called Rosa Mundi, is striped rose-red and flesh-white, varying to the point of being solid in either color.
     R. gallica Agathe, or Agatha, has in the type, smaller, purple, very double blooms, outer petals spreading, inner petals concave. (Agatha has had several varieties.)
     R. centifolia has unequal prickles, much stronger than those of R. gallica. The longer leaflets, 5 to 7, are less rugose, less leathery, and are glandular on the serrate edges, with stipules quite gland-ciliated. Stalks grow to 6 feet, sometimes arching. Sepals are often very decorative, being pinnatifid, leafy at the tips, glandular on backs and edges. Flowers are cupped, full, "cabbaged," very fragrant, usually in shades of pink, on long stems, densely glandular, often cernuous (nodding), solitary or a few.
     R. muscosa, the Moss rose, belongs here with its excess of glands on very foliaceous sepals, on calyx-tube, peduncle and often on foliage. R. centifolia cristata, the Crested Provence, belongs here also. The glands are suppressed and the copi-ous decoration is a compound system of bristles, like little round hat-brushes. R. centifolia, pomponia (Rose de Meaux) is a small form of Centifolia with blooms 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter, very fragrant, with paler guard petals and bright pink centers. R. centifolia parvifolia, the Burgundian rose, has characteristics more nearly related to the Gallica, with full, small blooms, of a rosy red.

     Miss Willmott includes here, as do many of the older authorities, a class made up of roses with extremely variable physical characteristics, but not such as to exclude them from the Gallicae group, and probably not from relationship with the two above. This class is called R. provincialis. Other authorities make no separate class of these variables which are so difficult to place, but put them under R. gallica or R. centifolia, according to their dominant characteristics. Others, like William Paul, set them apart as hybrids of Gallica or Centifolia.
     The second division within Gallicae has more uniform prickles and leaflets not glandular-serrate--Damascena and Alba roses.

     R. damascena, the Damask rose, grows tall, has green stalks with a copious mixture of stout booked prickles (and unequal smaller ones), bearing ovate-oblong leaflets, not at all leathery, with fine veins, softly pubescent beneath, with gland-ciliate stipules. Lanceolate bracts, also gland-ciliated, are found in the corymb of clustering blooms. Damascena roses are very fragrant, usually in pink shades, with sepals having a leafy point, long and reflexing during flowering. The fruit is ovoid, red, and pulpy.

     Damask Perpetual roses are Damask roses which bloom in the autumn or "monthly," with prickles and foliage of the class.

     R. damascena versicolor, York and Lancaster, has double, white and pink . Striped and blotched blooms, sometimes solid white. In distinguishing R. gallica, Rosa Mundi from R. damascena, York and Lancaster, one notes the following differences: Rosa Mundi, upright bush to 3 feet. Bloom large, flat, open, blotched and striped flesh and carmine; stamens in