SOME WILD ASIATIC ROSES. 



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-hade is of a lighter pink. The fruit is very large, sometimes two inches 

 long. The variety is well worth cultivation. 



But the following varieties are -till more curious and attractive, in 

 my opinion. The first was reared from seed coming from Se Tchuen. 

 It is a bush with few, strong, diffuse branches, covered all over with 

 enormous spines, very close together, sometimes an inch long, and shaped 



Fi<;. 137.— Rosa kacbophylla, Lindl., v\k. aciculams. 



like a blade, bearing a small point in the middle. The flowers are rather 

 large and pink. (Figs. 185, 186.) 



The second variety is from Yunnan. Its shoots are, on the con- 

 trary, very slender and gently curved, with acicular spines at the base 

 and scarcely any along the stems. The foliage is elegant, the leaflets 

 being long and narrow. The flowers are rather numerous, drooping, borne 

 on very slender and long peduncles. Their size is not large, as the corolla 

 is little more than half an inch across, but the colour is a dark red ; and 

 the calyx, with the long and narrow blades of its divisions, spreads out 

 star-like two inches wide. The panicles of flowers are very nice in a 

 small bouquet. (Figs. 187, 188.) 



