470 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



R. canina, the latter prevailing, and it is this white-flowered rose whichi 

 largely furnishes the oil at Kezanlik. The annual time of flowering 

 extends over several months. 



Eosa G-allica, Lmn. 



The French or Dutch Rose. Middle and Southern Europe,, 

 South- Western Asia. Hardy to lat. 70 in Norway. The intensely 

 coloured flower-buds of this species are particularly chosen for drying, 

 the calyx removed. These, however, may be got also from other 

 kinds of roses. 



Rosa Indica, Linn<$. (R. Sinica, Linn ; R. Chinensis, Jacquin.) 



China, thence brought to India. Can be cultivated in the open 

 air of Western Europe to lat. 67 86' [Schuebeler] . The "Hybrid 

 Perpetuals" are largely traceable to this plant. Flowering time 

 of long duration annually. Some roses of the sweetest scent are 

 derived from this species. R. fragrans (Redoute), the Tea-Rose is 

 a variety. The Noisette-Rose is a cross of this and R. moschata. 

 How amazingly lucrative sometimes the growth of ornamental 

 Roses may become, has lately been exemplified by the " Five Thou- 

 sand Dollars Rose," a cross between the variety " President " and 



^ Rose Xavier Olibo, reared by Mr. F. W^. Bennett, of Staplefprd. 

 Attention is drawn by Mr. R. Brandt to the quick growth and very 

 early flowering of the Bennett-Rose, also to the stability of the 

 flowers. 



Rosa Isevigata, Michaux. (R. Sinica, Murray, not of Lmn.) 



The Cherokee-Rose. China and Japan. Considered one of the 

 best hedge-roses, and for that purpose much employed in North- 

 America. It serves well also for bowers. Allied to the foregoing 

 species. The lovely garden-favorite, R. Banksias (R. Brown), also 

 indigenous to China and perhaps Japan, is one of the best for arbors 

 and for covering walls. 



Rosa macrophylla, Lindley. 



Himalaya, ascending to 10,000 feet. Fruit an esculent, up to 

 2 inches long even naturally and likely enlargeable in culture. 

 Grown as a hedge-plant in some parts of the Himalaya [Dr. G. 

 Watt]. 



Rosa moschata, Miller.* 



North-Africa and South-Asia, ascending the Indian and Abys- 

 sinian mountains to 11,000 feet. Blooming all the year round in 

 warm climes, but more profusely in the cool season. From the 

 flowers of this extremely tall climbing species also essential oil is 

 obtained. The attar thus derived from roses of not only different 

 varieties, but even distinct species, must necessarily be of various 



