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Exurpit oF Rosa FOoLIOLOSA BY MAURICE DE VILMORIN, Paris. 
Rosa foliolosa of Nuttall is a wild species in Arkansas, Texas, &c., and 
has been too much neglected by horticulturists. It presents very 
distinct features—a small size, very thin wood, very elegant little foliage, 
with numerous and glossy leaflets, It is very late flowering and continues 
Fic. 6.—Rosa FoLioLosa, Nutt. 
to bloom all through the autumn, showing bright rosy-white flowers, 
bearing at the same time both green and red fruits with fine fimbriated 
persistent sepals. The defect of its sending out so many suckers may be 
corrected by budding it on the collar of some other rose. (Fig. 6.) 
But it is chiefly for hybridising purposes. that Rosa foliolosa ought to 
be interesting. Crossed with some dark-coloured variety of Rosa indica 
