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Rosa MICROPHYLLA. SMALL-LEAVED 
CHINESE Rose. 
Class and Order. 
3 Tcosanpria Po.tyeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. ) 
Generic Character. — 
Calycis tubus urceolatus carnosus, achenia plurima hir- 
suta includens. Receptaculum villosum. : oo. 
Specific. Character and Synonyms. 4 
Rosa microphylla ; foliolis nitidis argute serratis, calyce 
aculeis densissimis muricata, sepalis brevibus late ova- 
tis apiculatis. Lindl. 4 : 
Rosa microphylla. “ Roxb. Fl. Ind. ined.” Lindl. Ros. 
Monogr. p.9. Bot Reg. t. 919. 
Whether the single-flowered state of this plant is in 
cultivation, I am ignorant. Certain it is, that the highly 
double blossoms, so much admired by cultivators, cannot i 
be exceeded in delicacy of form, shadow, and colour-— 
ing by any species of this highly-prized Genus: and no 
where, perhaps, is the present kind brought to so high a 
degree of perfection as in Mr. Curtis’s extensive Nursery 
at Glazenwood, near Coggeshall, Essex, where the accom- 
panying figure was made. — 
‘It is a native of China, and is stated to have blossomed 
: for the first time in Mr. Cotvitte’s Nursery, about ten 
years ago. 
Weare indebted to Mr. Curtis for the following remarks, 
cannot fail to be acceptable, to our Horticultural 
Wale ; 
_ friends. “‘ Rosa microphylla is hardy enough to bear our 
_ mild winters without protection, but with very sharp frosts 
it is liable to be destroyed in the open ground, a circum- 
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