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ROSA 



Lindl.). CHINA ROSE. BENGAL ROSE. Low upright 

 shrub with slender branches usually armed with scat- 

 tered stout compressed more or less hooked prickles, 

 sometimes almost unarmed: Ifts. 3-5, broadly ovate to 

 ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrate, shining and dark 

 green above and pale beneath, glabrous, 1-23^ in. long; 

 stipules narrow, glandular-ciliate : fls. usually several, 

 less often solitary, on long usually glandular stalks, 

 rarely short-stalked, crimson or pink, rarely whitish, 

 about 2 in. across, not or slightly fragrant; outer sepals 

 usually pinnate: fr. obovoid or turbinate, about %in. 

 long. China. W.R. 26. The wild form recently dis- 

 covered in Cent. China is var. spontanea, Rend. & 

 Wilson, with single deep red or pink, usually solitary 

 fls. G.C. III. 31:438. The following varieties are 

 garden forms. 



Var. semperfldrens, Koehne (R. semperflorens, Curt. 

 R. bengalensis, Pers.). CRIMSON CHINESE ROSE. Low 

 shrub, with slender, prickly or almost unarmed, dark 

 green branches: Ifts. rather thin, mostly stained with 

 purple: fls. usually solitary on slender pedicels, crim- 

 son, or deep pink. B.M. 284. W.R. 30. 



Var. longif&lia, Rehd. (R. longifolia, Willd.). Lfts. 

 lanceolate: fls. single, deep pink. Red. Ros. (3:25, 8). 



Var. minima, Rehd. (R. Lawrenciana, Hort. R. 

 indica var. pumila, Thory). Dwarf shrub, usually not 

 over 1 ft. high, with small rose-red fls. about \y& in. 

 across; petals often pointed. There are single- and 

 double-fid, forms. The FAIRY ROSES belong to this 

 variety. B.M. 1762. Red. Ros. (3:25, 6, 7). 



Var. viridifldra, Dipp. GREEN ROSE. With mon- 

 strous green fls. ; the petals are transformed into small, 

 narrow green Ivs. F.S. 11 : 1136. 



Var. Manetti, Dipp. (R. Manetti, Hort.). Fig. 3441. 

 Of vigorous growth, upright: pedicels hispid-glandular: 

 fls. deep pink, single or semi-double. This variety has 

 been recommended as a stock for forcing roses; grows 

 readily from cuttings, but is not quite hardy. 



3441. The Manetti rose. Much used as a stock 

 See No. 12. 



13. Noisettiana, Thory. NOISETTE ROSE. CHAMP- 

 NEY ROSE. Supposed hybrid of R. chinensis and R. 

 moschata. Sts. upright to 6 ft., with hooked uniform 

 reddish prickles: Ifts. 5-7, usually oblong-lanceolate or 

 oblong-ovate, glabrous: fls. usually many in corymbs, 

 white to pink or red, sometimes yellow; styles pubes- 

 cent, loosely cohering, protruding beyond the disk. 

 Blooms in summer and fall. Gn. 71, p. 335. W.R. 32. 

 Numerous garden forms. The Noisette rose was raised 

 about 1816 by John Champney, of Charleston, S. C., 

 from seed of the musk rose fertilized by a blush China 

 rose. From the seed of this hybrid Philippe Noisette, 



a florist at Charleston, obtained a rose which was 

 afterward distributed as Blush Noisette by his brother 

 Louis Noisette, of Paris. 



14. borb6nica, Morr. BOURBON ROSE. Supposed 

 hybrid of R. chinensis and R. gallica. Upright shrub, 

 with prickly and often glandular-hispid branches: Ifts. 

 usually 7, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, shining, 

 slightly pubescent beneath: fls. 1 or few in a corymb, 

 on glandular pedicels, double or semi-double, usually 

 purple, blooming in summer and fall. W.R. 114. 

 Originated from a rose intro. about 1819 from the 

 Island of Bourbon where it was found among seedlings 

 of the Bengal rose by Mr. Perichon and sent by 

 Mr. Br6on, director of the botanic garden- at Bourbon, 

 to Jacques, gardener to the Duke of Orleans at Neuilly 

 near Paris; this rose, called Rose Edward, by crossing 

 with roses of the Gallica groups has given rise to the 

 Hybrid Bourbon roses and is the origin together with 

 crosses between this and other hybrids of R. chinensis 

 and its varieties and R. damascena of the Hybrid Per- 

 petual or Remontant class. 



Section 4. BANKSIAN^E. Contains one Chinese species 

 with climbing, sparingly prickly or unarmed sts.: 

 stipules quite free, subulate, caducous: sepals entire, 

 reflexed after flowering, caducous. 

 A. Pedicels glabrous; fls. small 15. Banksiae 



AA. Pedicels hispid; fls. large 16. Fortuneana 



15. Banksiae, R. Br. BANKS' ROSE. Climbing to 20 

 ft., evergreen: Ifts. 3-5, sometimes 7, elliptic-ovate to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtusish, finely serrate, shi- 

 ning, glabrous except at the base of midrib beneath: fls. 

 on slender, smooth pedicels in many-fld. umbels, white 

 or yellow, about 1 in. across, slightly fragrant. May, 

 June. Cent, and W. China. G.C. III. 31:439. J.H.S. 

 27:501. Var. albo-plena, Rehd., with double white 

 fls. B.M. 1954. Var. lutea, Lindl. (var. luteo-plena, 

 Rehd.), with double yellow fls. B.R. 1105. Var. lutes- 

 cens, Voss, with single yellow fls. B.M. 7171. Var. 

 normalis, Regel, with single white fls. is the wild 

 form. Intro, first into Eu. by Wm. Kerr, in 1807 in 

 the double white form; the double yellow form was intro. 

 about 1825, while the single white and yellow forms 

 were not known until 40 or 50 years later. Not hardy 

 N.; sometimes grown in greenhouses. 



16. Fortuneana, Lindl., supposed to be a hybrid of R. 

 Banksise and R. Isevigata. Climbing shrub, with spar- 

 ingly prickly sts.: Ifts. 3-5, ovate-lanceolate, lustrous: 

 fls. solitary, large, double, white, on hispid pedicels. 

 F.S. 7, p. 256. J.F. 2, p. 27. W.R. 36. 



Section 5. GALLIC^E. Contains only one very variable 

 species, native of Eu. and W. Asia. Low, upright 

 shrub: the sts. with usually hooked prickles mixed with 

 bristles: fls. few and often with narrow bracts or soli- 

 tary on a usually bractless pedicel; sepals reflexed after 

 flowering, caducous, the outer ones pinnate; upper 

 stipules not dilated. 

 A. Prickles very unequal: Ifts. usually 



doubly and glandular-serrate. 

 B. Texture of Ifts. firm, leathery: pedi- 

 cels upright 17. gallica 



BB. Texture of Ifts. thin; Ifts. sometimes 

 simply serrate: fls. nodding, usually 



double 18. centifolia 



AA. Prickles uniform: Ifts. simply serrate, 

 not glandular. (Supposed hybrids of 

 R. gallica.) 

 B. Prickles numerous. 



C. Receptacle glandular-hispid: Ifts. 

 ovate-oblong, often pubescent 



beneath 19. damascena 



cc. Receptacle usually smooth: Ifts. 

 broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 



pubescent beneath 20. alba 



BB. Prickles sparse, on the flowering 

 branchlets nearly wanting: Ifts. 

 glabrous beneath or pubescent only 

 on the midrib ... ..21. f rancof urtana 



