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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



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soft, finely wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flowers 

 in corymbs, and, in many instances, very nu- 

 merous. Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. 

 Styles protruded, incompletely grown together 

 into a long hairy column. (Dec. Prod., ii. 

 p. 598.) A climbing shrub, a native of Japan 

 and China; introduced in 1822; and producing 

 a profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 

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

 in June and July. It is one of the most orna- 

 mental of climbing roses ; but, to succeed, even 

 in the climate of London, it requires a wall. 

 The flowers continue to expand one after ano- 

 ther during nearly two months. 

 Varieties. 



1 R. m. 2 Grevillei Hort. R. RoxburghzzHort. ; 

 R. platyphylla Red. Ros., p. 69. The 

 Seven Sisters Rose. (Jig. 513.) A beautiful variety of this sort, with 

 much larger and more double flowers, of a purplish colour ; and no 

 climbing rose better deserves cultivation against a wall. It is easily 

 known from R. multiflora by the fringed edge of the stipules ; while 

 those of the common R. multiflora have much less fringe,and the leaves 



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are smaller, with the leaflets much less rugose. (See Gard. Mag., 

 vol. i. p. 468.) The form of the blossoms and corymbs is pretty nearly 

 the same in both. A plant of this variety, on the gable end of Mr. 

 Donald's house, in the Goldworth Nursery, in 1826, covered above 

 100 square feet, and had more than 100 corymbs of bloom. Some of 

 the corymbs had more than 50 buds in a cluster ; and the whole 

 averaged about 30 in each corymb ; so that the amount of flower buds 

 was about 3000. The variety of colour produced by the buds at 

 first opening was not less astonishing than their number. White, 

 light blush, deeper blush, light red, darker red, scarlet, and purple 

 flowers, all appeared in the same corymb ; and the production of 

 these seven colours at once is said to be the reason why this plant is 

 called the seven sisters rose. This tree produced a shoot the same 

 year which grew 18 ft. in length in two or three weeks. This variety, 

 when in a deep free soil, and an airy situation, is of very vigorous 



