NAT. ORDER 

 Rosacea. 



ROSA SEMPERFLORENS. EVER BLOOMING ROSE 



Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order VI. Polygynia. 



Gen. Char. Petals, five. Calyx, pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, fleshy, 



contracted at the neck. Seeds, numerous, hispid, afiixed to 



the inner side of the calyx. 

 Spe. Char. Germen, ovate. Peduncles, hispid, with prickles. 



The stalks are erect, and covered with small prickles ; the 

 foliage resembles that of the Centifolia, but the segments are less 

 acute ; the petals are large, less numerous, spreading, and of a 

 deep crimson color ; \}a.Q filaments are numerous, thread-like, sup- 

 porting yellow anthers. The Ever Blooming Rose is a native of 

 China, and blossoms in every month in the year. 



We are induced to consider the Rose here represented as 

 one of the most desirable plants in point of ornament, ever intro- 

 duced into this country. Its flowers, large in proportion to the 

 plant, are semi-double, and with great richness of color unite a 

 most delightful fragrance. They blossom during the whole of the 

 year, but rather more sparingly in the winter months. The shrub 

 itself is more hardy than most green-house plants, and will grow 

 in so small a compass of earth, that it may be reared almost in a 

 coffee cup. It is kept with the least possible trouble, and propa- 

 gated without difficulty, by cuttings or suckers. 



This beautiful Rose is but little known on the Western Con- 

 tinent, although its cultivation begins to be more general, and will 

 most likely increase and become conspicuous in the collections of 



Vol. ii.— 122. 



