ROSA MULTIFLORA 
Is a strikingly beautiful object. The flowers are borne in a long, loose 
panicle chiefly at the ends of the branches, and in such abundance 
that there are often more than two hundred blossoms on a panicle ; 
they have a faint, delicate scent. The plant is easily pro])agated either 
by cuttings or by seeds : it does not, however, increase much from the 
roots. Seeds sown in spring germinate in about a month. The t\’pe 
is frecjuently used as a stock on which to bud and graft other Roses. 
The plates in the Botanical Magazine'' and the Botanical Register ~ 
represent garden forms. Rosa florida of Poiret,^ for which the plate 
in the Botanical Magazine is quoted, is also one of the garden forms. 
Rosa inultijlora is figured by Andrews. 
' Vol. xxvi. t. 1059 (*^07). 
- Vol. V. t. 425 (1819). 
^ Lamarck, Encycl. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 715 (1816). 
* Roses, vol. ii. t. 83 (1828). 
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