sent to China in 1823, to omit no opportunity of securing 
this valuable variety, in which he was so fortunate as to 
succeed, having brought home several plants with him, 
upon his return in the Lowther Castle East Indiaman, 
in 1824. 
This kind proves, upon the whole, to be a more 
desirable plant than the white variety, having, indeed, 
a less fragrant perfume, but bearing flowers in greater 
abundance, and more freely, in being rather more hardy, 
and in its leaves being of a deeper and richer green; they 
are also more elliptical and obtuse than those of the first 
variety. 
Cultivated with ease when trained against a wall, 
where it flowers during April and May. It strikes readily 
from cuttings, and will probably prove a good stock for 
budding other roses upon. It often makes, during the 
summer, shoots 7 or 8 feet long, quite free from branches, 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, in May last. 
Difficult as the genus Rosa has proved to all Botanists, : 
and numerous as have been the inevitable errors into which 
every writer upon the subject has fallen, we should, never- 
theless, have supposed that the history of a species so very 
distinct as this, and so little exposed to the chances of 
inaccuracy, might have, at least, been preserved from 
absolute mistatements; these, however, seem to be con- 
tagious among Roses. Mr. Trattinnick asserts, upon the 
authority, as he says, of the Banksian Herbarium, that the 
fruit of R. Banksie is round and black: but the fruit does 
not exist in the Banksian Herbarium, and has never yet 
been seen by any European Botanist; there is, therefore, 
no authority whatever, as we believe, for stating that 
either its figure or colour are known. M. Seringe, how- 
ever, copies this assertion of the German Botanist, without 
remark, in his arrangement of Rosa, in the second volume 
of M. Decandolle's Prodromus, and even makes these 
imaginary properties form a part of the specific character ! 
Alas! poor Rosa! 
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