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blooms produced on this stock, but from 

 cursory observation I should judge that 

 it had no dwarfing effect on the flowers. 

 Lady Falmouth at Tregothnan,andMiss 

 Willmott at Tresserve,both have plants 

 on the R, polyantha stock, which, I be- 

 lieve are doing well and giving full satis- 

 faction . In this note I have referred solely 

 to the R. Icevigata from India grown at 

 Kingswear, and, from what I have seen 

 of R. si?iica or the Camellia Rose on the 

 Riviera and in England, am under the 

 impression that the type does not pro- 

 duce as large flowers as the Kingswear 

 form. While I do not fora moment wish 

 to advocate the culture of R. Icevigata 

 in the colder districts of England, I 

 should certainly advise the trial of this 

 most beautiful Rose on southern walls in 

 the milder portions of our islands. The 

 conditions which obtain in the Kings- 

 wear garden where the parent plant is 

 established are admittedly rare, for there 

 Mesembryanthemums remain unpro- 

 tected through the winter, Acacia deal- 

 bata flowers profusely in February, and 

 Kmbothrium coccineum, Fremontia ca- 

 lifornica, and Ccesalpinia Gilliesi are 

 growing; but even in spots less favoured 

 climatically the experiment may well 

 be made, for plants often prove to pos- 

 sess far greater hardiness than they are 

 credited with, and I was surprised the 

 other day to find the Australian Blue- 

 bell Creeper (Solly a heterophylld) , which 

 I had considered very tender, growing 

 vigorously and flowering profusely on 

 high ground about two miles fromChep- 

 stow. R.gigantea, introduced in 1888, 

 was brought out with a great flourish of 

 trumpets, but although I have seen se- 

 veral plants in the open I have never 



known one to flower, and imagine that 

 even if it were floriferous it would not 

 rival in beauty R. Icevigata at its best. 



S. W. FITZHERBERT. 

 Kingswear, South Devon. 



ROSA LAEVIGATA, VAR. " ANEMONE 



Rose." — Of this fine and new form of 

 the Camellia Rose, Mr. S. Mottet has 

 kindly sent us the following note : — A 

 beautiful and as yet little-known variety 

 j of this plant has been grown now for 

 j some years. It is a form of obscure ori- 

 gin, but probably Japanese, distributed 

 in 1896 by J. C. Schmidt, of Erfurt, 

 under the name of Anemoneii Rose, from 

 its likeness to the rosy form of the Ja- 

 panese Wind-flower. Though with the 

 general aspect of the Cherokee Rose it 

 differs from it so much in some ways as 

 to suggest a hybrid form rather than a 

 mere colour variation. Its stem, instead 

 of being green and armed only with 

 thorns, as in the type, is of a dark purple 

 colour set both with thorns and small 

 spines mingled; the calyx and flower- 

 stems are also less fleshy in texture, and 

 smoother in character. Its flowers are 

 fully as large as in the older form, mea- 

 suring nearly 4 inches across, with large 

 petals slightly frilled and of a beautiful 

 rose colour, which varies in intensity 

 according to season and position. An 

 additional merit is, that if not frankly 

 "perpetual" its beauty is less fleeting 

 than that of the Camellia Rose, for its 

 flowers succeed one another well into 

 the middle of the summer. In habit it 

 is even more free and vigorous, and fully 

 ; as hardy as the type, and is adapted to 

 I the same uses in covering walls, pillars, or 

 trellis-work, but only in spots that are 

 warm and sheltered. Grafted standard- 



