By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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are deeply notched ; they are of a rich blush colour, but 

 fade off entirely white. The fruits are of moderate size, 

 black, and compressed. It comes into flower later than the 

 Common Lady's Blush. 



The Butch Double Blush* has been so called in my cata- 

 logue, because it appears to have been introduced into our 

 nurseries from Holland, where it is called Rosa spinosissima 

 jiore plcno. It is a stronger growing plant than many others : 

 its aculei are dark red, the larger ones thin, and much 

 flattened. It has generally four pair of foliola even on the 

 leaves of its flowering branches ; the foliola are large; the 

 peduncles are long, thickened, and quite smooth; the ger- 

 men large and campanulate ; the sepals long, narrow, and 

 leafy ; the bud shews a delicate pale blush ; the flower is 

 large, semi-double, and expands well ; the petals are large, 

 rather turned back, thin and semi-transparent, with a faint 

 blush pervading the whole of them, both within and without, 

 but it is more intense in the centre ; the whole colour goes 

 off* on exposure to the sun ; the general tinge is deeper than 

 in the Lady's Blush, and the flowers open some time after 

 those of that variety. The fruits are abundant, inclining to 



* I apprehend, that the Rosier Pimprenelle rouge k flcurs doubles, of Re- 

 doute^s Roses, vol. i. p. 119, is this plant; the figure represents the peduncles 

 as having setae, but they are described to be occasionally smooth. The French 

 Rose is represented to have been raised by M. Descemet, and to have been 

 subsequently nearly lost, and only preserved by accident, and that it was also 

 observed in Messrs. Loddiges's garden at Hackney. Messrs. Loddiohs's plant 

 is certainly the one 1 have described, and that came from Holland, not from 

 France. The observations on this Rose in the work alluded to are remarkable in 

 shewing the want of information of the writer; who seems to be entirely ignorant 

 of the existence of any other Double Scotch Roses than this and the white one 

 mentioned above in p. 289. 



