By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



Loudon, at Loudon Castle, in Ayrshire, in the year 1768 

 or 1769. Mr. Douglas, who at that period had the charge 

 of the estate and gardens at Loudon, has informed me that 

 he gave a plant of the Rose to his friend Mr. Charles 

 Daliiymple of Orangefield, near Ayr, from whose garden 

 it was introduced into the nurseries in his neighbourhood, as 

 well as at Glasgow; it was at first called the Orangefield 

 Rose, but subsequently received the more general appella- 

 tion by which it is now known. It has been considered by 

 some as a native wild plant of Ayrshire, but I believe there 

 is little doubt, that it was first observed in the gardens of 

 that county, where possibly the original plants, or at least 

 some of their earliest offspring, are still to be seen. Mr. 

 Woods did not consider it as indigenous in Britain, since in 

 his Synopsis of the British Roses, communicated to the Lin- 

 nean Society in 1816, and subsequently published in their 

 Transactions,* he has not even mentioned it. 



From Scotland, it reached the nurseries round London, 

 but was not noticed by any of our periodical works on 

 plants till 1 8 19, when Dr. Sims published an account of it 

 in the Botanical Magazine -f His description was made 

 from specimens of plants which cover a building, in the 

 garden of the late Sir Josepei Banks, at Spring Grove; 

 these came from the nursery of Mr. Ronalds at Brentford, 

 and were planted in February 1811. 



In January 1820, Mr. Neill, in the paper I have above 

 alluded to, gave, besides a general description of the Rose, a 

 botanical character of it, drawn up by Mr. David Don, 



* Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xii. page 159. 

 f Botanical Magazine, 2054. 



