NAT. ORDER 
Rosacecs, 
ROSA SEMPERFLORENS. EVER BLOOMING ROSE 
Class XII. IcosANDRiA. Order VI. Polygynia. 
Gen. Char. Petals, five. Calyx, pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, fleshy, 
contracted at the neck. Seeds, numerous, hispid, affixed to 
the inner side of the calyx. 
8pe, Char. Germen, ovate. Peduncles, hispid, with prickles. 
The stalks are erect, and covered with small prickles ; the 
foliage resembles that of the Centifolia, but the segments are less 
acute ; the petals are large, less numerous, spreading, and of a 
deep crimson color ; the filaments are numerous, thread-like, sup- 
porting yellow anthers. The Ever Blooming Rose is a native of 
China, and blossoms in every month in the year. 
We are induced to consider the Rose here represented as 
one of the most desirable plants in point of ornament, ever intro- 
duced into this country. Its flowers, large in proportion to the 
plant, are semi-double, and with great richness of color unite a 
most delightful fragrance. They blossom during the whole of the 
year, but rather more sparingly in the winter months. The shrub 
itself is more hardy than most green-house plants, and will grow 
in so small a compass of earth, that it may be reared almost in a 
coffee cup. It is kept with the least possible trouble, and propa- 
gated without difficulty, by cuttings or suckers. 
This beautiful Rose is but little known on the Western Con- 
tinent, although its cultivation begins to be more general, and will 
most likely increase and become conspicuous in the collections of 
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