the great majority of roses; a sunny position and a good 
loamy soil inclining to be of a heavy rather than a hight 
character. Such pruning as may be called for will have to 
take the form of a thinning out of the older wood; certainly 
not a general shortening back of the branches. It can be 
propagated by cuttings made in August and placed in gentle 
heat. Seeds will also be available, but having regard to the 
possibility of hybridisation it will be necessary that any 
seed collected be taken from plants isolated from other 
roses. 
Descrietion.— Shrub, 8-10 feet high; branches glabrous, 
sparingly prickly, prickles short straight with widened 
bases. Leaves with 7-13 leaflets, including the short petiole 
3-7 in. long, 14-3 in. wide, rachis very slender, puberulous, 
with also small prickles and minute glands; leaflets except 
the terminal almost sessile, thin, ovate, oblong, elliptic or at 
times almost orbicular, 4-11 in. long, gradually smaller 
towards the basal pair, closely serrulate with thickened teeth, 
glabrous on both sides except on the slightly pilose midrib 
beneath, bright green above, paler beneath; stipules wide, 
entire, 3-$ in. long, reddish, finely glandular-ciliate, the free 
tips deltoid, subacute. Flowers deep blood-red, the petals 
paler outside, 13-24 in. across, solitary or in pairs, erect; 
peduncles shorter than the flowers, clothed with conspicu- 
ous long-stalked glands. Calyx faintly tinged with dull 
purple; tube naked or more or less clothed with stalked 
glands; lobes 5, spreading, caudate from an ovate base, 
leafy, almost as long as the petals, within tomentose, at first 
also hairy outside on the portions overlapped in bud by 
adjacent sepals, rarely slightly glandular. Petals usually 95, 
almost orbicular, emarginate, 3-11 in. wide, explanate, 
slightly overlapping. Stamens very many, filaments very 
short, anthers tawny-yellow. Carpels 15-20, pilose, free, 
somewhat exserted from the tube. Fruit deep orange-red, 
ampulliform, crowned by the calyx lobes which become 
erect and including these 21-913 in. long, sometimes 
sparingly clothed with stalked glands below the middle 5 
achenes somewhat pilose. 
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