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tries, and producing flowers of a pale red or pure white. The 

 original plant is of a deep purple color. Siebold, in his treatise 

 on the flowers of Japan, says that this rose had been already cul- 

 tivated in China about eleven hundred years, and that the ladies 

 of the Court, under the dynasty of Long, prepared a very choice 

 pot-pourri by mixing its petals with musk and camphor. 



More than one hundred distinct varieties are mentioned by 

 botanists, in addition to those we have enumerated, but none of 

 very marked characters or much known. 



