ROSA 447 



Native of Eastern N. America, and probably the first of American roses 

 introduced to Britain. It is a useful plant for forming thickets in the wild 

 garden, and its glossy green leaves are always pleasing. In habit it resembles 

 R. Carolina, but is easily distinguished by its glossy leaves and bristly stems. 

 It is more nearly allied to R. humilis, but is a more robust shrub with more 

 glossy leaves. Many of the flowering portions of R. virginiana are quite 

 unarmed. 



Var. ALBA has white flowers, and differs also from the type in the more 

 numerous flowers and more glandular flower-stalks and calyx ; leaflets paler 

 green, with leaflets and midribs downy. Said to have been discovered in 

 the United States about 1868, but believed by Prof. Sargent to be an escape 

 from cultivation and a hybrid of garden origin. 



Var. FLORE PLENO. The plant grown under this name may be a hybrid 

 between virginiana and some other rose. The flowers are double and very 

 pretty in the bud state, and the plant differs from the type in the frequently 

 double-toothing of its leaflets and its pinnately lobed sepals. 



Var. OR ANDI FLORA. A very pretty variety, the petals being i| ins. long 

 and wide, and of a deep rose ; the sepals even longer, with expanded leafy 

 tips. 



R. WATSON i AN A, Crtpin. 



(Garden and Forest, 1890, fig. 59.) 



A trailing shrub whose smooth, slender stems are armed with small hooked 

 prickles. Leaflets three or five, linear, I to i\ ins. long, \ to in. wide ; 

 margins wavy, not toothed ; downy beneath, usually mottled with yellow 

 down the centre above ; common stalk downy, glandular, spiny. Flowers 

 pale rose, \ in. diameter, crowded on short broad panicles, 3 or 4 ins. wide ; 

 sepals entire, lanceolate, very downy inside. Fruit not known. 



Introduced from Japan to the United States thirty-five to forty years ago, 

 and thence to England. The styles are united in a column, and in this as 

 well as in its crowded small blossoms it shows affinity with R. multiflora. But 

 its long, narrow leaflets distinguish it at once from all other roses. It may 

 not be a genuinely wild species, but a variety of Japanese garden origin. 

 It is a rose of delicate constitution, although it thrives very well with Mrs 

 Chambers, near Haslemere. The best plants I have seen are at La Mortola 

 and on Isola Madre, Lake Maggiore. But anywhere it must be regarded 

 more as a curiosity than anything else. 



E. WEBBIANA, Wallich. 



A graceful shrub of thin habit, 4 to 6 ft. high, whose long, slender branches 

 are armed with straight spines \ to \ in. long, often in pairs ; stems often 

 blue-white when young. Leaves I to 3 ins. long, usually smooth, sometimes 

 downy, composed of five to nine leaflets ; common stalk with tiny prickles 

 beneath. Leaflets obovate, broadly oval, or almost round, | to f in. long, 

 toothed towards the end. Flowers i^- to 2 ins. across, pale pink, produced 

 singly on short lateral twigs ; flower-stalk i to ^ in. long, smooth or slightly 

 glandular ; sepals about | in. long, lanceolate, terminating in a short tail, 

 ciliate ; calyx-tube more or less glandular. Fruit pitcher-shaped, bright red, 

 I in. long, apart from the persisting sepals with which it is crowned. 



Native of the Himalaya, at from 6000 to 18,000 ft. elevation. This 

 delightful rose, so distinct in its thin, graceful habit, its pale yellowish prickles, 

 its tiny leaves and glaucous young stems, is also very pretty in June when 

 covered with its blush-tinted flowers, and in autumn when carrying it- bright 

 red fruits. It can best be propagated by layering, also by seeds, when the 

 plant is sufficiently isolated to be safe against cross-fertilisation, but is still 



