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soft, finely wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flowers 
in corymbs, and, in many instances, very nu- 
merous. Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. 
Styles 
into a long hairy column. (Dec. Prod., ii. 
p. 598. 
and China; introduced in 1822; and producing 
a profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 
double, or double, white, pale red, or red flowers 
in June and July. It is one of the most orna- 
mental of climbing roses; but, to succeed, even 
in the 
The flowers continue to expand one after ano- 
ther during nearly two months. 
Varieties. 
& R.m. 2 Grevillei Hort. R. Roxbarghi Hort. ; 
ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Il. 
protruded, incompletely grown together 
) Avclimbing shrub, a native of Japan 
climate of London, it requires a wall. 

R. platyphylla Red. Ros., p.69. The 
Seven Sisters Rose. (fig. 513.)—A beautiful variety of this sort, with 
much larger and more double flowers, of a purplish colour; and no 
climbing rose better deserves cultivation against a wall. It is easily 
known from &. multiflora by the fringed edge of the stipules ; while* 
those of the common R. multiflora have much less fringe, and the leaves 

are smaller, with the leaflets much less rugose. (See Gard. Mag., 
vol.i. p. 468.) The form of the blossoms and corymbs is pretty nearly 
the same in both. A plant of this variety, on the gable end of Mr. 
Donald’s house, in the Goldworth Nursery, in 1826, covered above 
100 square feet, and had more than 100 corymbs of bloom. Some of 
the corymbs had more than 50 buds in a cluster; and the whole 
averaged about 30 in each corymb; so that the amount of flower buds 
was about 3000. The variety of colour produced by the buds at 
first opening was not less astonishing than their number. White, 
light blush, deeper blush, light red, darker red, scarlet, and purple 
flowers, all appeared in the same corymb; and the production of 
these seven colours at once is said to be the reason why this plant is 
called the seven sisters rose. This tree produced a shoot the same 
year which grew 18 ft. in length in two or three weeks. This variety, 
when in a deep free soil, and an airy situation, is of very vigorous 
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