'Pourpre Ardoisé' rose photos

The Florist's Guide and Cultivator's Directory vol. 2 (1829-1832) Robert Sweet 147 BUONAPARTE ROSE. Rosa gallica var. Buonapartii. Stem stout, erect, branching: branches clothed with slender, weak, straight, red prickles, some of which are longer and stouter than the others: the upper part slightly tinged with a reddish colour, green below, and striated with innumerable faint lines. Leaves generally bearing 'two pair of leaflets, and terminated by an odd one: the upper one either simple, or. bearing three leaflets, which are also smaller. Petioles glandularly hairy, bearing a few prickles, some of which are straight, and others more or less hooked: leaflets opposite, on very short footstalks, ovate or elliptic, acute, or sometimes rather bluntish, somewhat unequal at the base, pennately nerved, reticulately veined, and toothed with unequal bluntish teeth, rough between the teeth, the margins tinged with a reddish brown, of a glossy green, and smooth on the upper side; underneath pale whitish green, occasioned by being clothed with numerous white hairs, which are also on the nerves, the midrib clothed more or less with little brown glands. Stipules connected to the base of the footstalk, terminated in ovate acute points, finely serrulated at the edges, fringed, and more or less clothed with little pedicellated brown glands. Flowers terminal, generally 3 or 4, very large and well filled out with petals. Peduncles or rfiowerstal/cs hispid, or clothed with very small straight prickles or setae, some rather larger than the others; rmilaL one without bractes; the side ones bearing two bractes a little above the base. Bractes elliptic, taper-pointed, glandularly fringed. Tube of the calyx smooth, punctate: segments variable in number, ovate, keeled, tapering to a long slender point, some entire, others more or less divided, pubescent, and glandular. Petals numerous, very much crowded, the outer ones broadest, and of the palest colour; becoming gradually narrower inwards, where they are of a rosy lilac, palest on the under side. This beautiful Rose appears to be intermediate between Rosa gallica, and Rosa centifolia, possessing the characters chiefly of the former, with the habit of the latter; the flower partakes nearly equally alike of both, the form of it being most similar to the former, the colour and scent that of the latter: the plant from which our drawing was made, at the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Mime, was one of the standards that had been budded standard height, a sort of plant that is now very fashionable, the stock on which they are worked being generally R. canina or R. villosa, or some others of the strong growing wild sorts; those soon produce strong heads, and bear an abundance of flowers, and are at present in great demand.