Book (1832) Page(s) tab 198. Includes photo(s).
Lee's Carmine Rose. Rosa centifolia var. carminata.
Stem stout, erect, branching: branches thickly clothed with unequal prickles, more or less dilated at the base, nearly straight, but some slightly bent downwards. Leaves bearing from 3 to 7 leaflets : those near the flower one pair, terminated by an odd one : leaflets variable, some blunt, others acute; terminal one cordately ovate: side ones frequently oblique at the base, clothed underneath with soft woolly hairs, glandularly toothed with red glands at the margin. Petioles more or less prickly, glandularly hairy, as is the midrib of the leaf. Stipules connected to the base of the footstalk, fringed with brown pedicelled glands, and terminated in free, lanceolate, acute points. Flowers terminal, varying in number, according to the strength of the plant or branch, generally very double, and handsomely formed. Peduncles, or flower-stalks, glandularly hispid, as is also the tube and segments of the calyx. Tube of the calyx ovate, tape ring to the base : segments more or less divided, their segments variable in shape and size. Petals numerous, imbricately spreading when expanded, the greater part more or less emarginate, becoming gradually narrower inwards.
The present handsome variety of Rose appears to belong truly to R. centifolia, to which the numerous varieties of the Provins Rose belong, the greater part of which are very odoriferous, more so than any other Rose. This variety is of a bright colour, as well as odoriferous, and is therefore a valuable acquisition to the cultivators of Roses.
Our drawing was made from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Lee, at Hammersmith.
