Wichuraiana. On the other hand, the plant described by 
Bentham, F7. Hongk., p. 106, under the name of R. moschata 
is R. Luciae. 
Descr.—A very robust species of suberect habit, 
forming bushes at least 8 ft. high and as much through, 
armed with curved prickles or with straight ones in the 
barren branches. Leaves pale-green, usually with seven 
leaflets, the largest 4 in. long, usually 24 to 3 in. long. 
Leaflets oval, ovate or ovate-oblong, rarely more than 1 in. 
long, minutely serrate, axis usually furnished with a few 
small prickles. Stipules adnate, acute, with marginal glands. 
Flowers ivory-white, about 14 in. across, very numerous, in 
compound, dense, terminal corymbs, or sometimes solitary 
on short lateral branchlets. Peduncles slender, slightly 
glandular. Calyz-lobes shortly tailed, entire or furnished 
with a few small teeth. Petals emarginate. Ovaries pilose ; 
styles connate. Mruit orange-vermilion, ovoid or nearly 
globose, a little over 4 in. in its greatest diameter.— 
W. Borrrye Hemsiery. 
Cultiv.—One of the most vigorous of all Roses, this new 
Chinese species is, in consequence, better adapted for semi- 
wild places than it is for the more trimly kept parts of the 
garden. On young plants the growths of a single year 
are sometimes 10 feet to 12 feet long. In June, when its 
numerous clusters of white flowers are open, it is very 
beautiful, as it is again in autumn, when the clusters of 
small fruits have turned to a soft red. But apart from 
these, the luxuriant mass of smooth grey foliage out of 
which are thrust the long, arching shoots of the year, is in 
itself attractive. Roses are notoriously gross feeders, and 
f. Soulieana is not one of the exceptions. It should be 
planted in good, rather heavy loam, in a position fully 
exposed to the sun, with abundant space to grow in.— 
W. J. Bran. 
Fig. 1, portion of a flowering-branch showing the prickles; 2, longitudinal 
section of a receptacle; 3, a young carpel :—all enlarged. 
