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base. They are red edged, and tlie stem has also a strong stain of that colour; most of them are alternate, a very few 
only near the summit being opposite to each other. It is a hardy perennial, requirhig a light soil and dry situation. It 
is easily increased by cuttings any time during the summer or autumn, and flowers from June to August. It proves to be 
a fine showy plant for Rockwork, where it blooms freely and remains long 
in succession. — Jowrtuil of Hort, Soc.y vol, i. 
339. Rosa Fortuniana. A scrambling evergreen liardj 
shrub, with large solitary flowers, and ternate or quiuate leave 
Native of Cliina. Intro- 
duced by the Horticultural 
Society, (Fig. 171.) 
R. Fortuniana (Banksiana), 
ramis scandentibus glabris^ 
aculeig parvis falcatis distan- 
tibus, foliolis 3-5uii5ve ovato- 
lanceolatis nitidis argute serra- 
tis, floribus solitariis, calycis 
tubo hemispherico nudo sepalis 
ovatis indivisis. 
Among the roses introduced 
by Mr. Fortune, for the Horti- 
cultural Society, is one which 
does not appear referable to 
any known species. It is a 
scrambling shrub, with slender 
branches, sparingly armed with 
small falcate prickles. The 
leaflets are ovate-lanceolate, 
finely serrate, thin, bright 
green, shining on both sides, 
and usually in threes, some- 
times in fives. The stipules 
are small, subulate and deci- 
duous as in the Banksian 
The flowers grow 
short setose pe- 
roses. 
singly on 
duucles ; have a hemispherical 
naked calyx tube, and ovate 
undivided sepals, and are 
double white, with their petals 
loosely and irregularly ar- 
ranged in a mass about three 
inches in diameter. That it is 
not a Banksian rose is proved 
by its solitary flowers and 
prickly stems ; that it is no 
variety of R. sinica^ is shown 
by its weaker habit, and the 
total absence of spines from its 
calyx-tube. Can it be a mule 
between the two 1 The plant 
has not much beauty, so far as 
the flowers are concerned, but 
its rapid growth, straggling 
habit, and evergreen leaves, 
render it extremely well suited 
for covering waHs, verandahs, 
or rustic work in gardens. 
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