1 70 Rosacece Rosa. 



are all from Eastern Asia and North America. We distinguish 

 in this section : 



R. Icevigata (R. Slnica of gardens), the Georgian Rose, has 

 climbing naked or armed stems, leaves of three ovate-lan- 

 ceolate rather coriaceous shining denticulate very glabrous 

 leaflets. The flowers are solitary, large, and pure white. The 

 ripe fruit is obovoid-oblong, red, clothed with spiny bristles, 

 and surmounted by the calyx-leaves. This beautiful species 

 has become naturalised in the woods of Georgia in North 

 America, where it reaches the summits of the highest trees. 

 It is supposed to be of Chinese origin, but it is not the true R. 

 Silica, which differs in having prickles on its petioles, whilst 

 in this species they are unarmed. It is probable that these 

 two species, so admirably adapted for covering trellis-work, 

 etc., will soon be introduced to our gardens, where they might 

 compete with the following. 



R. Bdnksice, the true Banksian Rose, a native of China, is a 

 climbing or trailing shrub, producing stems 30 feet or more in 

 length in a more southern climate, though with us it requires 

 a warm wall and slight protection in severe weather. It is 

 almost totally unarmed, and perfectly glabrous, except upon 

 the margin of the stipules, which are very deciduous, and upon 

 the principal nerve of the leaflets. These are three to five in 

 number, plane, oblong-lanceolate, and rather shiny. This 

 Rose, one of the most beautiful of the genus, is a very abundant 

 bloomer, with white, yellow, or salmon very double agreeably 

 fragrant flowers produced in large clusters. 



Banks's Rose, or, more strictly speaking, Lady Banks's Rose, so 

 named by Robert Brown in honour of the wife of the celebrated 

 patron of English botanists, was introduced into England for 

 the first time about the commencement of the present century; 

 but since then it has been re-imported several times, and the 

 last time, in 1850, by Mr. Fortune, while travelling in China 

 for the Royal Horticultural Society of London. These sepa- 

 rate introductions have supplied us with different varieties, 

 sufficiently diverse in the colour of the flowers, though agreeing 

 in habit. The prettiest are: Grandiflora alba plena, with 

 small quite white flowers ; the Old Yellow, with double almost 

 scentless flowers ; and the Salmon-coloured Banksian, whose 

 bronze flowers appear to be of a mixture of purple and yellow. 



R. anemonceflora, Anemone-flowered Rose, agrees but im- 

 perfectly with this group, though it would be difficult to find 



