feel confident that R. spectabilis will, as it grows older, 
vindicate its claim to beauty; for in the wild specimens 
we find the leaves three or four times as large, and the 
flowers produced in great profusion. 
It grows freely either in common garden soil, or in 
peat, and is very hardy, suffering only from the late frosts 
of spring. It blossoms in April and May, and strikes 
readily from cuttings under a hand-glass, treated like those 
of China Roses. 
Mr. Douglas found it commonly on the north-west 
coast of America, from 40? to 52 N. latitude. 
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