ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 37 



ROSA SPINOSISSIM A. 



THE SCOTCH, OR BURNET ROSE. 



THIS species of the rose takes its name from its 

 being very thorny. It is in habit very much as- 

 similated to the yellow roses, though of a more 

 spiny or thorny nature. It has been found grow- 

 ing in many of the Alpine districts of Europe, 

 though it is generally known as the Scotch Rose, 

 deriving its name from the fact of the first intro- 

 duction of it in a double state having been by the 

 Messrs. Browns, nurserymen, of Perth, (Scotland.) 

 As a stimulant to rose growers, I will relate what 

 I have heard from the lips of Mr. Robert Brown, 

 who is now living near this city, and is the very 

 individual who planted the seeds and distributed 

 thousands of this rose through the floricultural 

 world. He says, that "in or about the year 1793 

 he introduced to his nursery, from a hill in the 

 neighbourhood, seeds saved from this rose, which 

 produced semi-double flowers, and by continuing a 

 selection of seeds, and thus raising new plants 

 every year, they in 1803 had eight good double 

 varieties to dispose of; being white, yellow, shades 

 of blush, red and marbled; from these the stock 

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