Sir Henry Collett was greatly interested in his Rose, 
which impressed him as one of the most striking objects _ 
in the forests of the Shan Hills, and he was desirous of 
its being published. Accordingly the Calcutta specimens — 
were sent to Prof. F. Crépin, who described them under — 
Collett’s proposed name. . 
The seed sent to Kew germinated, and the plants grew 
apace. Some were given to other gardens; some were 
tried at Kew under various conditions, but none flowered. — 
One was planted out in the Succulent House, where it — 
remained, for years, and must have made hundreds of — 
yards of stems and branches, but it never flowered. At 
the present time there is a plant in the Temperate House 
with shoots some fifty feet long, showing no signs of © 
flowering. : — 
Albury Park, Guildford, one of the seats of the Duk 
of Northumberland, is the only place, except under gle 
with Mr. Cant, the Nurseryman, we believe, where it has_ 
flowered in England, and we are indebted to Her Grace 
the Duchess for the opportunity of giving a coloured 
figure of it. Mr. Leach, the Head Gardener at Albury, 
writes that two flowers only were produced in 1908, “ the 
first of which was just on six inches across.” In Feb-_ 
ruary of the present year, the same plant bore about a 
_ dozen flowers, the largest being a little more than five 
inches and a half across. 2 
_ Every possible method of propagation has been tried — 
— ineffectually in order to obtain flowers more freely in this 
country; yet it flowers profusely on the Riviera. 2 
_ The drawing of the fruit was made from a dried 
specimen, soaked out. Sir George Watt tells us that it is 
as large as a small apple, bright yellow, edible, and it is 
sold in the bazaars of Manipur State. ss ‘ 
_ Fortune’s “ Double Yellow,” which is very closely allied — 
to R. gigantea, is also usually a very shy bloomer, though © 
it sometimes flowers freely when worked as a standard. _ 
_ Descr.—A very vigorous, climbing or rambling shrub. 
Stems as much as three or four inches in diameter at the 
base, more or less armed with nearly straight prickles 
about a quarter of an inch long. Flowering-branches 
usually unarmed, sometimes furnished with a few curved 
prickles. Leaves usually of five or seven leaflets, upper- 
