feel confident that R. spectabilis will, as it grows older, 

 vindicate its claim to beauty ; for in the wild specimens 

 we find the leaves three or four times as large, and the 

 flowers produced in great profusion. 



It grows freely either in common garden soil, or in 

 peat, and is very hardy, suffering only from the late frosts 

 of spring. It blossoms in April and May, and strikes 

 readily from cuttings under a hand-glass, treated like those 

 of China Roses. 



Mr. Douglas found it commonly on the north-west 

 coast of America, from 40*^ to 52" N. latitude. 



J. L. 



