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siraa, or if the seeds are sown in stiff land, it will produce the former, if in 

 light laud, the latter. I have no specimen of Rosa Hibemica at present l>y 

 me, and therefore cannot compare it with R. cauina, but as Sir James E 

 Smith, the first botanist of his day, considers it a distinct species, I cannot 

 permit the article to be uncontradicted ; I know the R. spinosissima as 

 well as the R. cauina, and have seen wild specimens of every sort, but 

 never in any degree approaching to each other ; indeed, I doubt, if two more 

 distinct species could be selected, and I am sure that the seeds of the one 

 will not produce any plant likely to be mistaken for the other, as I have more 

 confidence in Sir James E. Smith than Mons. Boitard, you may rest as- 

 sured that as the roses Hibemica, Spinosissima and Cauina. are distinct spe- 

 cies and not varieties, the seeds of the one, can never by any chance produce 

 plants of either of the other two. 



Fifeshire, December I83S. Scoths. 



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