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lets. The flowers are solitary, very double, rose or pale 

 carmine. The calyx is densely covered all over with fine 

 thorns, a character wanting in the other species of the group, 

 and perhaps sufficient to separate this from it as a distinct 

 tribe. This pretty Rose is indigenous in China and the moun- 

 tains of Northern India, whence it was brought to England 

 towards the end of the last century. Two or three varieties 

 not uncommon in gardens are referred to this species : the 

 Old Purple, a very double deep carmine Rose ; and Triomphe 

 de Macheteaux, a very double white variety tinged with rose. 

 Another species attached to this group is the Rosa clinophylla^ 

 from which, hybridised with R. berberidifolia^ came Hardy's 

 Rose, a variety with yellow flowers spotted with purple at 

 the base of the petals, but this has become very rare 

 now. 



The Roses of this group require slight protection in severe 

 weather, and are well suited for covering dwarf walls. 



III. ROS^E CINNAMOME^E, or Cinnamon Roses. Shrubs or 

 bushes variable in height, natives of Europe, Western Asia, and 

 North America. The leaflets are usually long and lanceolate, 

 especially in the American species ; the flowers are of medium 

 size, rosy carmine, and generally produced in clusters, though 

 rarely solitary. The almost spherical fruits ordinarily lose the 

 calyx-leaves on arriving at maturity. 



R. cinnambmea. Cinnamon Rose, a European shrub, chiefly 

 inhabiting the mountainous regions of the South, where it attains 

 a height of 9 or 10 feet or more, with a stem occasionally 

 thicker than the arm. The almost straight spines occur in pairs 

 a little below the insertion of the petioles ; the leaves are mostly 

 composed of 5 oblong leaflets of a greyish green above and glau- 

 cous beneath ; and the lilac or very pale carmine flowers are 

 either solitary or two or three together on the same peduncle. 

 This Rose, which has been in cultivation a long time, has 

 given birth to several varieties, single and double, amongst 

 which we may notice the Rose du Saint-Sacrement, still 

 to be seen in some gardens. 



R. maialis. May Rose, is a small bush about 3 feet high, from 

 the North of Europe, with weak spines scattered or united 

 in pairs on a level with the insertion of the petioles. The 

 leaves have usually 7 leaflets, ovate or obovate, and slightly 

 glaucous. Flowers small, solitary, pale rose ; fruit spherical, 

 orange-coloured, not losing the calyx-leaves on arriving at 



