418 ROSA 



long, downy beneath. Flowers 3 ins. across, single, white or blush-coloured, 

 produced in clusters ; stalk, sepals, and lower part of calyx-tube bristly. 

 Fruit bright red, oblong, f in. long, with the sepals fallen away. 



This beautiful rose the type of a pleasing group of garden varieties, 

 characterised by soft pink, often double flowers, and a charming fragrance 

 is generally considered to be a natural hybrid between R. gallica and 

 R. canina var. dumetorum. It is found wild in several parts of Europe, and 

 has also been found in England, but always in places which show it to have 

 been an escape from gardens. 



Var. SUAVEOLENS, Dieck, is one of the chief roses from whose flowers 

 attar is obtained. It is largely grown in Roumelia and Bulgaria. 



R. MACRANTHA, Desfontaines. A hybrid of similar origin to that of R. alba. 

 This beautiful rose appears first to have been found wild in N.W. France in 

 1823. It is an erect bush, ultimately 6 ft. or more high, whose leaves have 

 five or seven divisions. The flowers are in clusters of three to five, each 

 blossom 3 to 4 ins. across, single, flushed with rose on first opening, then 

 becoming almost pure white. Its' large blossoms, produced in great profusion, 

 make it one of the loveliest of the wild or semi-wild types. It may be 

 mentioned that R. Dupontii a beautiful rose, but not so free and hardy as 

 this is sometimes sold as R. macrantha. 



R. ALBERTII, Regel. 



A shrub 2 to 4 ft. high, the stems armed with numerous, straight, needle- 

 like prickles. Leaves I to 3 ins. long, composed of five to nine leaflets, which 

 are ovate, obovate, or roundish, \ to ij ins. long, sharply and often doubly 

 toothed on the terminal part, glabrous above, minutely downy beneath, often 

 glandular on the margins ; common stalk downy and glandular. Flowers 

 white, IT-;- ins. across, solitary ; flower-stalk glandular, calyx and outside of 

 sepals smooth, the last lanceolate, woolly at the edges and inside. Fruit 

 f in. long, slenderly pear-shaped, the sepals falling away when ripe. 



Discovered in 1877 in the Thianschan Mountains of Turkestan, and 

 introduced to cultivation in the St Petersburg Botanic Garden by Dr Albert 

 Regel. It is closely allied to R. spinosissima, but is distinguished by the 

 downy under-surface of the leaves. The plant generally grown under the 

 name has yellow flowers, and appears to be nearer R. Ecae. 



R. ALPINA, Linnceus. 



(R, pendulina, Linneeus.~) 



A robust shrub, ultimately 6 to 8 ft. high, with branches almost or quite 

 devoid of prickles. Leaves 2 to 6 ins. long, with five to nine leaflets, the 

 common stalk of which is glandular and sometimes downy ; stipules with 

 large leafy tips edged with glands. Leaflets oval or ovate, I to 2 ins. long, 

 usually double-toothed ; midrib minutely prickly, otherwise smooth on both 

 sides. Flower often solitary, deep pink, i^ ins. acro'ss, produced on a 

 glandular-bristly (sometimes naked) stalk, I to i|- ins. long. Sepals f in. 

 long, entire, expanded at the tips, glandular or smooth outside, downy within. 

 Fruit bright red, f to I in. long, narrowly pear-shaped, with a neck surmounted 

 by erect, persistent sepals. 



Native of the mountains of Central and S. Europe ; cultivated in England 

 since late in the seventeenth century. It is a rose of great interest to many 

 because of its unarmed condition, and is sometimes known as the " rose 

 without a thorn." Often the only prickles are a few weak ones at the base 

 of the branches. It has fine foliage and is also very handsome in fruit, the 



