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And the Siberian shrub is very elegant, a foot 

 and half or at most two feet in height ; the trunk 

 thorny all over, the thickness of the little fin- 

 der, very much branched, the branches collect- 

 ed into an ovate form : the spines on the trunk 

 and branches very frequent, bristle-shaped, 

 transverse or reclining, gray : the leaves very 

 small, on red petioles, sometimes smooth, some- 

 times with small prickles on them: the stipules 

 very narrow with wider earlets, external and 

 serrate : the leaflets commonly seven, but some- 

 times nine or five, the size of the little finger 

 nail, oval, cut round, sharply double-serrate, 

 stiffish, rugged, more or less retuse, on some 

 shrubs rather acute : the peduncles sometimes 

 rough, sometimes smooth, with a ternate and 

 simple leaf, almost to the flower : the fruit glo- 

 bose, smooth, and when rip^? black, dry and 

 insipid, being crowned with the segments of the 

 calyx. It is a native of the South of Europe as 

 well as Asia, flowering here in May and June. 



'['he seventh has its stems about two feet 

 high, upright, much branched, with numerous 

 straight, unequal, very slender needle-like pric- 

 kles, on the young branches, which often dis- 

 appear from the old ones : the leaflets seven or 

 nine,small, roundish, blunt, serrate, smooth, ses- 

 sile: their common petiole is sometimes prickly: 

 the peduncles solitary, one-flowered, smooth, 

 or very seldom prickly : the stipules small, hal- 

 bert- shaped, toothed: the tube of the calyx al- 

 most hemispherical, smooth : the segments are 

 entire : the petals white or cream-coloured, yel- 

 low at the base, delicately fragrant, sometimes 

 striped with red : the fruit globose, deep red, 

 black when quite ripe, smooth, but sometimes 

 somewhat prickly. Jt is a native of most parts 

 of Europe. 



There are several varieties, as the Striped- 

 flowered, or with variegated flowers, red striped 

 with white. 



The Red Scotch Rose, which seldom rises 

 more than a foot high : the stalks are covered 

 with a brown bark, and arc closely armed with 

 .--mall spines ; the leaves are very small ; the 

 flowers are also small, sessile, and of a livid red 

 ccilour: the fruit is round, of a deep purple co- 

 lour inclining to black when ripe. 



And, according to Withering, there is also a 

 variety with prickly peduncles, and cream-co- 

 loured flowers, changing to white. 



Lawrence likewise mentions a double Scotch 

 Rose. 



The eighth species very much resembles the 

 two following sorts ; but differs in having the 

 stem two feet high, the petioles hairy at the top, 

 and the flowers in pairs. It rises with several 

 slendei stems to the height of two or three feet, 



covered with a brownish-green bark, and armed 

 with a few sharp spines : the leaflets arc seven or 

 nine, oblong-ovate and sharply serrate : the 

 leaves of the flower-cup have often linear leafy 

 elongations : the corolla is single and of a pale 

 reddish colour. 



There is a variety with a double flower. 



The ninth rises with several smooth stalks to 

 the height of five or six feet : the young branch- 

 es are covered with a smooth purple bark : the 

 leaves are, composed of four or five pairs of spear- 

 shaped leaflets, smooth on both sides, of a lucid 

 green on the upper surface, but pale on the un- 

 der, and deeplv serrate : the segments of the ca- 

 lyx long, narrow and entire : the flowers of a 

 livid red colour, single, with little scent, appear- 

 ing in July. 



The tenth species has the stem five or six feet 

 high, smooth: the stipular prickles two: the 

 leaflets seven, oblong-ovate or nearly lanceolate, 

 smooth, not shining, but opaque, serrate, paler 

 underneath : the petioles prickly : the peduncles 

 several, branched, forming a corymb; unarmed, 

 with glandular hairs scattered over them : the 

 leaflets of the calyx undivided, hispid on the 

 outside : the petals obcordate, red. It is a sort 

 that flowers late ; and, like the two preceding, 

 a native of North America. 



The eleventh grows upright to the height of 

 four feet or more : the branches are upright and 

 short : the prickles on the stem and branches 

 scattered, small, awl shaped, nearly straight : 

 the leaflets seven, elliptical, bluntish, clothed on 

 both sides with short velvet-like down, fragrant 

 when rubbed, their serratures fringed with 

 glands : the petioles downy, prickly, glandular : 

 the peduncles terminating, mostly solitary, one- 

 flowered, rough with rigid glandular bristles : 

 the germ globular, bristly : the segments of the 

 calyx long, downy, prickly on the outs.de: the 

 corolla of a full rose-colour, not very odorife- 

 rous : the fruit globular, larger than in anv 

 other sort, and for the most part bristly and 

 blood-red. It is found in Europe and Asia, and 

 known as a cultivated sort in plantations, &c, 

 both in a single and double state. 



The fruit has a pleasant acid pulp surrounding 

 the seeds, and is sometimes made into a con- 

 serve or sweetmeat, and served up at table in 

 desserts, &c. 



The twelfth species is well known in gardens, 

 and one of the most beautiful sorts: the flow- 

 ers are sometimes very large, and the petals 

 clostlv folded over each other, like cabbages, 

 whence it is called the Cabbage Rose : the flow- 

 ers have the most fragrant odour of all the 

 sorts. 



According to Parkinson, the Great Double 



