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ROSA Ruga. 

 The Ruga Rose. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. RosACEiE Jussieu. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 81.) 



ROSA.—Supnl, vol. 1. fol. 53. 



Garden Variety. 



This beautiful variety is said to have been raised between 

 R. arvensis and the Sweet-scented Chinese Rose. It was 

 sent from Italy to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Clare. 

 As a Garden plant, it is one of the most valuable that we 

 are acquainted with ; it produces the long straggling shoots 

 of R. arvensis, which are, however, without the debility of 

 that species, having gained all the vigour of the Chinese 

 parent. They will sometimes grow 10 or 12 feet in a year, 

 and are therefore particularly well adapted to scrambling 

 over old pales, or to covering any other place in which a 

 wildness of appearance is desirable. The leaves are a 

 little stained with dull purple, a colour deeply fixed in the 

 stem, and are as nearly as possible intermediate in form and 

 texture between R. indica and arvensis, but are scarcely 

 evergreen. The blossoms grow in bunches, are of the size 

 of the Sweet-scented Chinese Rose, and fully as fragrant ; 

 in colour they are rather deeper, especially before being 

 fully expanded, when they approach the tint of the charm- 

 ing variety known in the Gardens under the name of the 

 Double Hip. Very readily increased by cuttings. 



J. L. 



