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stalk downy and armed with hooked spines. Flowers very fragrant, 3^ ins. 

 across, purplish rose, produced singly, or a few in a cluster ; petals over- 

 lapping ; the calyx-tube is smooth, but the flower-stalk and sepals are downy, 

 the latter I to ij ins. long. Fruit rich bright red, tomato-shaped, I in. or 

 more in diameter, crowned with the sepals. 



Native of China, Japan, and Corea ; introduced by Siebold about 1845. 

 It is said to have been cultivated since 1 100 A.D. in China, where the ladies of 

 the Court long prepared a kind of pot-pourri from its petals mixed with 

 camphor and musk. No rose hybridises more readily with others, and if seed 

 be sown from plants growing with or near other roses, little of the progeny 

 comes true. The consequence is that a worthless lot of mongrels have 

 appeared, some of which have been named, but ought never to have been 

 allowed to survive their first flowering. At the same time a group of 

 beautiful roses has been derived from it, noteworthy for their vigorous habit, 

 fragrant flowers, and very handsome fruits. 



Var. ALBA. Flowers white. 



Var. FLORE PLENO. Flowers purplish red, double ; leaflets smaller and 

 narrower than in the type. 



Var. KAMTCHATICA (R. kamtchatica, Ventenatj Bot. Reg., t. 419). A 

 distinct geographical variety sometimes regarded as a species. It differs from 

 rugosa in having the stipular prickles distinct from the more bristly scattered 

 ones, in the leaves being more obovate and rounded at the apex, and in the 

 smaller fruits. Introduced about 1770. 



A discussion of the numerous hybrids now in gardens, of the type of 

 " Blanc de Coubert," " Mrs A. Waterer," etc., is outside the limits of this book ; 

 only a few of the more noteworthy primary ones can be noticed. 



R. CALOCARPA (rugosa x indica). Sent out by Bruant of Poitiers about 1891. 

 A handsome plant, with branches less thick than rugosa, clusters of bright red 

 fragrant flowers, followed by globose, scarlet fruits, f in. wide, and crowned 

 with the sepals. In a sunny season it bears fruits in remarkable abundance. 



R. HETEROPHYLLA, Cochet (rugosa alba x lutea). Raised by Mr Cochet of 

 Coubert, in France, about 1894. A curious rose of little beauty. Flowers 

 white, i to \\ ins. across ; leaves and leaflets diverse, the later ones of the 

 season very narrow. 



R. IWARA, Siebold (rugosa x multiflora). Introduced from Japan. Of 

 spreading habit, intermediate between the parents ; flowers small, white. 

 This hybrid may be described as two beautiful species spoilt. 



R. VILMORINII (rugosa x microphylla). One of the best primary crosses, 

 being intermediate in habit and foliage, and having large, single, pale pink 

 flowers, 4 or 5 ins. across. Raised by the late Henri de Vilmoriri. 



The " Lady Duncan " rose (rugosa x Wichuraiana) was raised in the Arnold 

 Arboretum. It is a rambling plant, making shoots 6 or 8 ft.' long in a year. 

 Leaves glossy green ; flowers soft rose. One of the most beautiful of these 

 hybrids. 



R. SANCTA, A. Richard. ABYSSINIAN ROSE 



As seen in cultivation this rose is a low, rather open bush, whose weakish 

 stems have a few hooked, scattered prickles of unequal size. Leaflets three 

 or five, ovate or oblong, i to 2 ins. long, often blunt-pointed, simply toothed, 

 rough but not downy above, hairy beneath ; common stalk downy and more 

 or less prickly ; stipules edged with glands. Flowers 2 to 3 ins. across, pale 

 rose, produced several together in a loose cluster, each flower on a slender, 

 smooth stalk, i to 2 ins. long. Sepals downy and glandular, very large and 

 pinnately lobed, the largest being i| ins. long, and in. wide at the base, 

 with broad, leafy points. 



Native of Abyssinia, and a close ally of R. g'allica, but very distinct in the 

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