whether the large fruited state, to which alone the name 
«Great Apple Rose” applies, occurs anywhere truly wild, 
it having been cultivated for so long a period for the size 
and fleshiness of its hips, in which respect it surpasses all 
other Roses. It has even been supposed to be indigenous 
in the north of England, but upon very questionable 
authority ; and of the Scandinavian habitats none, perhaps, 
are above suspicion, though Fries (Mantiss i. 39) con- 
siders it to be undoubtedly spontaneous in the Alpine 
Valley of Romsdalen, Norway. Ray, who clearly refers 
to it in describing its fruit as of the size and form of a 
small pear beset with spines, gives the northern parts 
of York and Westmoreland as localities, but as Mr. Baker 
observes, he doubtless did not distinguish R. mollissima and 
tomentosa as distinct from it. Ina broad sense, as R. villosa, 
it inhabits the whole of Hurope. : 
As cultivated at Kew the fruits are not so large or 
prickly as they are in the beautiful specimen figured, which 
was sent by Mr. Burbidge, M.A. (Curator of the Botanical 
Gardens, Trinity College, Dublin), from Mr. Walpole’s 
garden, Mount Usher, co. Wicklow, with the information 
that it was found in an old garden site in the Devil’s Glen, 
co. Wicklow, some years ago, and that it there forms very 
handsome glaucous leaved bushes with a sweet-briar like 
scent.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Fragment of margin of leaf; 2, di ; : 
—all enlarged. gin of leaf; 2, ditto of petal; 3, ovary; 4, achene 
