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good as strangely-neglected R. villosa. And we were unlucky 
enough just to miss getting the evidently bird-beloved round 
red fruit of the very beautiful R. xanthina, whose bending sprays 
of great single Austrian briar-like blooms droop such showers of 
gold over all the scant coppice of the Blackwater region in April, 
from Kiai Chow up to the lower reaches of the Nan Ho. This, 
and not R. sericea, I believe to be the parent of the crimson- 
hooked pteracantha form sent out as a variety of R. sericea. Now, 
this development, with blood-red new shoots armed with enormous 
winged blood-red thorns, is very common in all these parts to 
the yellow R. xanthina, and never has here at all occurred, in my 
experience, to R. sericea. [R. xanthina, if it so prove, was 
secured in 191 5.] 
Rosa sp. (F 84) is a dear little shrub, not uncommon in the cooler 
reaches approaching Wen Hsien, and in all the lower alpine 
coppice of the Satanee region. It grows quite stiffly and rather 
densely, attaining 4-5 feet, exquisitely graceful in effect with its 
small fine foliage, and enshrouded all over in May with a count- 
less multitude of small charming apple-blossomy flowers of 
palest pearly white with a pinky flush. Seed from the Mo-Ping 
pass ; it may possibly not be available yet for distribution, 
though I rather think this is a false alarm. 
Rosa sp. (F 291) is the most glorious multiflora Rose I have ever 
seen. It begins in the lower alpine coppice and hedgerows of 
the Satanee district, exists in magnificent specimens in the cool 
dank depths of the Mo-Ping canon, and in Siku is used for a 
voluminous hedge, ascending for the same purpose to Ban S'an 
at the top of the loess hills at the foot of Thundercrown. It is 
a huge rampageous bush, making shoots of 12 feet in the season, 
dark purple and smooth, set with smooth lucent Banksioid foliage 
of deep leathern green and particularly strong-minded thorns, 
ferocious though sparse. Next year that shoot, all along its 
length, is bowed with a burden of blossom in superb enormous 
lax clusters, opening of a nankeen buff, passing to pure snow-white, 
and diffusing upon the intoxicated air an intense sweetness that 
ripples for a hundred yards around in the end of June. And 
then, as if this were not enough, these fragrant snow-showers 
pass into huge shock-heads of fruit, fiery orange at first, but 
gradually deepening to a rich bloomy vermilion, and hanging on, 
untouched, far into the early winter. At first, knowing it only 
at hot Ban S'an, I feared it might want Mediterranean sun- 
heat and ripening like the next, but having since seen it so 
luxuriant in the cool dank gorge of Mo-Ping, and in the cool sub- 
alpine coppice about Satanee, I no longer feel any fear that it 
will find impediments to its happiness and development in 
even moist north-country gardens at home. [It prevails all 
down S. Central Kansu, and under cultivation proves quite 
imperturbable. 1916.] 
