BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION. 



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lanceolate, soft, finely wrinkled. Stipules pectinate. Flow- 

 ers in corymbs, and, in many instances, very numerous. 

 Buds ovate globose. Sepals short. Styles protruded, in- 

 completely grown together into a long, hairy column. A 

 climbing shrub, a native of Japan and China ; and pro- 

 ducing a profusion of clustered heads of single, semi- 

 double, or double, white, pale red, or red flowers in June 

 and July. 



This is one of the most ornamental of climbing 

 roses ; but, to succeed, even in the climate of London, it 

 requires a wall. The flowers continue to expand one after 

 another during nearly two months. 



Var, Greyillei. — R. Roxburghii, HorL; R. platyphylla, 

 Bed, — The Seven Sisters Rose. — A beautiful variety, 

 with much larger and more double flowers than the 

 species, of a purplish color. It is easily known from B. 

 multiflora by the fringed edge of the stipules; while 

 those of the common B, multiflora have much less fringe, 

 and the leaves are smaller, with the leaflets much less 

 rugose. The form of the blossoms and corymbs is pretty 

 nearly the same in both. 



A plant of this variety on the gable end of R. Don- 

 ald's house, in the Goldworth Nursery, in England, 

 in 1826, covered above 100 square feet, and had more 

 than 100 corymbs of bloom. Some of the corymbs had 

 more than 50 buds in a cluster, and the whole aver- 

 aged about 30 in each corymb, so that the amount of 

 flower buds was about 3,000. The variety of color pro- 

 duced by the buds at first opening was not less astonish- 

 ing than their number. White, light blush, deeper blush, 

 light red, darker red, scarlet, and purple flowers, all ap- 

 peared in the same corymb ; and the production of these 

 seven colors at once is said to be the reason why this 

 plant is called the Seven Sisters Rose. This tree produc- 

 ed a shoot the same year which grew 18 feet in length in 

 two or three weeks. This variety, when in a deep, free 

 soil, and an airy situation, is of very vigorous growth, and 

 a free flowerer ; but the shoots are of a bramble-like tex- 



