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Fig. 1 is a section through the flower, and Fig. 2 shows the comb-like 
stipules at the base of the leaf-stalk, and the paired hook-prickles below. 
It occurs also with rosy and purple flowers. 
Plate 80 illustrates one of the numerous forms of R. indica, the 
var. semyperflorens or Monthly Rose, with solitary flowers at the tips 
of the branches. The figure is about one-half the natural size. 
Plate 81 is a drawing of R. lutea, var. punicea, the Austrian 
Briar, or Nasturtium Rose (Rose Capucine), so called on account of the 
resemblance in colour to the flowers of Tropwolum. Fig. 1 is a section 
through the flower after the fall of the petals. 
Plate 82 shows a flower and buds of R. centifolia, var. muscosa, 
the Moss Rose, with its shaggy calyx and unequal prickles. The 
remarkable stipules are also well represented. 
Plate 83 is a reduced drawing of the Hybrid Perpetual Baroness 
Rothschild, about one-half of the natural size. 
Plate 84 gives further representation to the class of Hybrid 
Perpetuals in General Jacqueminot, drawn of the natural size. 
In the Plate which forms the frontispiece to the present volume 
of this work, there will be found a representative of the Noisette 
section of Roses — William Allen Richardson, a hybrid of recent 
production, but already a great favourite. 
KERRIA 
Natural Order Rosacea. Genus Kerria 
KERRIA (named in honour of W. Kerr, a botanist of last century). A 
genus of only one or two species of shrubs, native of China. Kerria 
japonica is frequently cultivated on account of its handsome orange- 
yellow flowers, abundantly produced at almost all seasons. It is an 
erect-growing plant, 5 or 6 feet high, with slender dark-green branches, 
and bright green, smooth, alternate leaves, which are oval-lance-shaped, 
sharply and doubly toothed. The flowers are of similar structure to 
those of Spirwa, with five petals and numerous stamens. But the form 
almost solely cultivated in this country is the double variety, flore pleno. 
The flowers are produced singly at the end of little side-shoots all along 
the upright branches, and are about an inch and a half across. It was 
introduced about the year 1700. 
Cultivation, K. japonica (Japanese) is usually trained against 
walls. It succeeds in any good loamy soil, and is repro- 
