ADDISONIA 49 
(Plate 185) 
ROSA “EDITH CAVELL” 
‘Edith Cavell” Rose 
Garden Hybrid 
Family ROSACEAE RosE Family 
This is one of the latest introductions among the dwarf polyantha 
roses, and it is of first class merit. The growth is vigorous and 
clean, and the flowers, borne in great profusion in large clusters, 
are of a brilliant scarlet overlaid with deep velvety crimson, a 
unique color in its class; it should be neglected by none who favor 
this type of rose. It blossoms freely in the early summer, with 
scattering bloom following until fall, when it again flowers more 
freely. Specimens of this rose have been in the rose garden at the 
New York Botanical Garden since the spring of 1919; they were 
presented by Messrs. Bobbink & Atkins of Rutherford New Jersey, 
who inform me that this rose was originated in 1917 by Jan Spek, 
of Boskoop, Holland. It is from one of these specimens that the 
illustration was prepared. 
The ‘‘ Edith Cavell” rose is of bushy habit, attaining a height, under 
feet. The stems are glabrous, with 
broad flat thorns a quarter of an inch long or less. The leaves are 
with small spines; the ciliate-toothed stipules are adnate 
rachis, or sometimes the very apex is free. The leaflets are usually 
seven, or those of the upper leaves only five, on very short stalks; 
they are elliptic to oval and have the margins crenate-serrate; the 
base is rounded or somewhat acute, and the apex acute. The 
flower-clusters are large and showy, the branches, especially the 
more. ‘The sepals are toothed or lobed. The petals are broadly 
obovate, usually more or less retuse, and of a brilliant scarlet, 
overlaid with deep velvety crimson, 
GrorcE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1—Flower cluster. Fig. 2.—Portion of stem 
and leaf. 
