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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



'iisa Roxb. 



-i -* R. (a.) s. 2 Russelliana, raised from seed by Mr. Sinclair of the New 

 Cross Nursery. A very strong-growing variety, quite deciduous, with 

 blush flowers. 



-i uk R. (a.) s. 3 Cldrei. The Rose Clare. (Bot. Reg., t. 1438.) An ele- 

 gant variety, with deep red flowers. Both these varieties are as 

 much entitled to be considered species, as many so designated in 

 this enumeration. 



Used for the same purposes as the Ayrshire rose ; from which it differs in re- 

 taining its leaves the greater part of the winter, and in its less vigorous shoots. 



C. Species Natives of Asia, and One of them of Africa. 

 -A 56. R. MULTIFLO V RA Thunb. The many-flowered Rose. 



Identification. Thunb. Fl. Jap., 214. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 598. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 583. 

 Synonymes. R. flava Donn Hort. Cant. ed. 4. p. 121. ; R. florida Pair. -Suppl. ; R. clif 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1059. ; Bot. Reg., t. 425. ; and our fig. 620. 



Spec. Char., $c. Branches, peduncles, and calyxes 

 tomentose. Shoots very long. Prickles slender, 

 scattered. Leaflets 5 7, ovate-lanceolate, soft, 

 finely wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flowers in 

 corymbs, and, in many instances, very numerous. 

 Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. Styles 

 protruded, incompletely grown together into a 

 long hairy column. (Dec. Prod.) A deciduous 

 climbing shrub. Japan and China. Stems 10 ft. 

 to 30 ft. Introduced in 1822. Produces a 

 profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 

 double, or double, white, pale red, or red, flowers J3j 

 in June and July. Fruit bright red; ripe in 

 September. 



Varieties. 



R. m. 2 Grevillei Hort. R. Roxburgh^ 

 Hort. ; R. platyphylla Red. Ros. p. 69. ; 

 The Seven Sisters Rose. (Our/g. 621.) 

 A beautiful variety, with much larger and more double flowers, 



621. R . 1 1 HI 1* i flora Urevi llei 



of a purplish colour. No climbing rose better deserves cultivation 



