at the base, #-14 in. long. Leaves green, the largest about 
22 in. long; leaflets 9-13, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, 
3-y in. long, 4-} in. broad, serrate, glabrous, axis usually 
furnished with a few small prickles. Stipules narrow, 
adnate, nearly 4 in. long, glabrous. Flowers solitary, 
white, terminating short, lateral branches, 13—2 in. across. 
Peduneles short and glabrous. teceptacle glabrous, obconic. 
Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, about 4 in. long, } in. broad at 
the base, acute, dentate towards the apex, outside sparingly, 
inside more densely silky. Petals usually 4, obovate, 
emarginate. ruit subglobose, a little over } in. in 
diameter, bright red.—J. Hurcainson. 
Cutivarion.—Hitherto Roses have been grown in 
gardens chiefly for the beauty and fragrance of their 
flowers and for their fruits, but in this new Chinese variety 
the large, beautifully coloured prickles provide a new and 
additional source of attraction. They constitute the most 
striking feature of the variety, for the flowers are not so 
large as in the typical R. sericea. The plant from which 
our figure was made was purchased from Messrs. Paul of 
Cheshunt in 1906, but European gardens owe its first 
introduction to Mr. Maurice L. de Vilmorin, in whose 
Fruticetum at Les Barres it has for some years been the 
most remarkable of a numerous series of Chinese forms of 
ft. sericea, Like Roses in general this needs a good strong 
soil to bring out its full attractions; it should preferably be 
grown in a rich, rather stiff loam. The beauty of its 
prickles is most marked on strong vigorous shoots of the 
current year; the second year they become grey and 
woody.—W. J. Bran. 4 ad 
Fig. 1, receptacle and calyx ; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, carpel :—all enlarged. 
