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yellow, perfectly double flowers. It has been introduced into 

 the Agri-Horticultural Society's Gardens, but cannot be brought 

 to thrive there. 



Rosa Banksise. 



BANKS IAN EOSES. 



1. Rosa ternata. A common plant about Calcutta; of rampant 

 growth, with bright, glossy, dark-green foliage, contrasting 

 prettily with its single pure white flowers. 



2. WHITE BANKSIAN, from China, a plant with slender thorn- 

 less twigs, and long narrow leaves ; is met with in the Calcutta 

 Botanical Gardens, and bears in April bunches of very small, 

 double, white, violet-scented flowers, but thrives very indif- 

 ferently ; will not bear pruning. 



3. YELLOW BANKSIAN is also met with in Calcutta, but is 

 rare. 



FORTUNE'S YELLOW ROSE. 



A rambling shrub with slender branches, of rapid and exten- 

 sive growth, not to be confounded with the White Banksian 

 Eosa Fortuniana ; flowers described as large double, with their 

 petals loosely and irregularly arranged, of copper and fawn 

 colour ; introduced several years ago by Mr. Fortune, from 

 China, into the Gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society, but 

 has never flowered, which possibly may be owing to its having 

 been pruned. Messrs. Standish and Noble, the cultivators of it 

 in England, say : " The shoots should only be thinned ; to 

 shorten them is to destroy the flowers." * 



Rosa multiflora. 



A powerful scandent shrub ; bears small pinkish flowers in 

 February in crowded clusters; hardly worth a place in the 

 garden, as plants take several years and become very large 

 before they blossom, and do so then only sparingly. This, 

 though very similar to the Eose, bearing the same name in 

 England, is quite distinct from it. Both kinds are found at 

 Ootacamund, where they form hedges, and blossom most pro- 

 fusely. I brought down thence the English variety to Chin- 

 surah, but it succeeded there no better than the common kind. 



* Paxton's ' Flower Garden,' vol. iii. p. 157. 



