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LXXI. On the Ayrshire Rose. By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 

 F. R. S., $c. Secretary. 



Read August 1, 1820. 



7 he beauty and usefulness of the Ayrshire Rose are not 

 sufficiently known. The rapidity with which it covers walls 

 and fences, or the sides of unsightly buildings, with its thick 

 mass of branches and foliage, and the brilliant effect of its 

 numerous white flowers during the month of July, in situ- 

 ations where it is well exposed to the sun, and particularly 

 when trained over the roofs of cottages or garden seats, are 

 such valuable properties that no ornamental grounds should 

 be without it. My inducement, however, for laying an ac- 

 count of this Rose before the Society is not to expatiate on 

 its value, but to endeavour to enable those who may wish to 

 cultivate it, to distinguish it from other Roses with which it 

 has been, and may still be, confounded. 



A History of the Ayrshire Rose has been published by 

 Mr. Neill, the Secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society, in a paper in the Edinburgh Philosophical Maga- 

 zine ;* and communications which I have received relative to 

 the plant from Mr. Robert Austin, of Glasgow, and Mr. 

 George Douglas, .of Rodinghead, near Kilmarnock, have 

 enabled me to add some few particulars to Mr. Neill's ac- 

 count. It is stated to have been raised (in what manner I 

 shall hereafter observe on) in the garden of John Earl of 



* Volume ii. page 102. 



