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XLV. Description and Account of the Varieties of Double 

 Scotch Roses, cultivated in the Gardens of England. By 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. $c. Secretary. 



Read, November 7th, 1820. 



Amongst the modern additions to the ornaments of our 

 gardens, the varieties of Double Scotch Roses stand deservedly 

 very high in estimation ; their beauty is undisputed, and as 

 they come into flower* full three weeks before the general 

 collection of garden Roses, they thus protract the period of 

 our enjoyment of this delightful genus. On the British col- 

 lector's notice they have an additional claim, being almost 

 exclusively the produce of our own country ; for of the many 

 kinds that I have observed there are only three which can 

 by any possibility be supposed to have originated out of 

 Great Britain. 



The Scotch Rose has been, and still is, sometimes called 

 the Burnet Rose ; it is the Rosa spinosissima of the English 

 authorsf of authority who have written on the genus: they 

 have united the Rosa pimpinellifolia and the Rosa spino- 

 sissima of Linnjeus, treating them as the same species, and 

 not even separating them as varieties. Willdenow, how- 



* The earliest varieties open before the end of May, and the succession of 

 blossoms on the different plants is kept up till near the end of June. 



f See Sir James Smith, article Hose, in Rees's Cyclopedia ; Woods, in 

 Transactions of the Unman Society, vol. xii. p. 178 ; and Ltndi.ey Rosarum 

 Monographia, p. 50. 



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