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Rosacecz Rosa. 



Seedling, or Thoresbyana, a very profuse small-flowered 

 double white variety. 



R. sempervlrens, the Evergreen Rose, a native of the Medi- 

 terranean region both in Europe and Africa. This is a 

 climbing shrub with long slender branches armed with hooked 

 prickles. Leaves shining, glabrous, composed of 5 to 7 ovate- 

 lanceolate leaflets, persistent even in Winter. Flowers medium 



size, numerous, clustered, 

 white, sweet-scented ; styles 

 coherent, forming a long hairy 

 column. The orange-coloured 

 fruit is small and round. 



This has been under culti- 

 vation a long time, and has 

 produced several esteemed 

 varieties, valuable for the same 

 purposes as those of the pre- 

 ceding species. We may men- 

 tion as among the best, Donna 

 Maria, pure white, medium 

 size, and double ; Princesse 

 Marie, bright rose, double, 

 and cupped. 



R. multiftora, the Many- 

 flowered Eose (fig. 92), comes from China and Japan. A 

 climbing shrub with slender flexible elongated branches armed 

 with hooked prickles arranged in pairs below the insertion of the 

 leaves. The latter are composed of about seven leaflets which 

 are hairy on both sides, oval or lanceolate, and more or less 

 acute. Flowers in dense clusters, small, very double, bright 

 rose. The column of styles is slightly hairy. The calyx- 

 leaves drop shortly before the turbinate bright red fruits 

 become ripe. 



This Rose is remarkable for the smallnees of its white or rose 

 flowers, which scarcely surpass those of the double cultivated 

 Bramble. The wild type, very probably single, is unknown to 

 us, and as the double variety (the only one we have from the 

 extreme East) is usually sterile, no hybrid variety, of course, 

 has been reported to which this has given birth ; but there are 

 several sub-varieties, which have been perpetuated by grafting. 

 We append the names of the best : Rose de la Grifferaie, 

 Multiflore du Luxembourg, and Laure Davoust. 



Fig. 92. Rosa multiflora. ( nat. size.) 



