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base. They are red edged, and the stem has also a strong stain of that colour; most of them are alternate, a very few 

 only near the summit being opposite to each other. It is a hardy perennial, requiring a light soil and dry situation. It 

 is easily increased by cuttings any time during the summer or autumn, and flowers from June to August. It proves to be 

 a fine showy plant for Rockwork, where it blooms freely and remains long 

 in succession.— Journal of Hort. Soc, vol. i. 



Kosa Eohtuniana. A scrambling evergreen hardy 

 shrub, with large solitary flowers, and ternate or qumate leaves. 

 Native of China. Intro- 

 duced by the Horticultural 

 Society/ (fig. 162.) 



R. Fortuniana (Banksiana"), 

 ramis scandentibus glabris, 

 aculeis parvis falcatis distan- 

 tibus, foliol.s 3-5nisve ovato- 

 lanceolatis nitidis argute serra- 

 tis, floribus solitariis, calycis 

 tubo hemispherico nudo sepalis 

 ovatis indivisis. 



Among the roses introduced 

 by Mr. Fortune, for the Horti- 

 cultural Society, is one which 

 does not appear fefi rable to 

 any known species. It is a 

 scrambling shrub, with slender 

 branches, sparingly armed with 

 small falcate prickles. The 

 leaflets are ovate-lanceolate, 

 finely serrate, thin, bright 

 green, shining on both sides, 

 and usually in threes, some- 

 times in fives. The stipule-! 

 are small, submate and deci- 

 duous as in the Banksian 

 roses. The flowers grow 

 singly on short setose pe- 

 duncles ; have a hemispherical 

 naked calyx tube, and ovate 

 undivided sepals, and are 

 double white, with their petals 

 loosely and irregularly ar- 

 ranged in a mass about three 

 inches in diameter. That it is 

 not a Banksian rose is proved 

 by its solitary flowers and 

 prickly stems ; that it is no 

 variety of R. sinica, is shown 

 by its weaker habit, and the 

 total absence of spines from its 

 calyx-tube. Can it be a mule 

 between the two 1 The plant 

 has not much beauty, so far as 

 the flowers are concerned, but 

 its rapid growth, straggling 

 habit, and evergreen leaves, 

 render it extremely well suited 

 for covering walls, verandahs, 

 or rustic work in gardens. 



