;_rOSA MULTIFLOI^A, var. PI.A'rYl’l lYLLA Tliory 
Kosd niitlfi/Iora, var. platyphylla : a typo rcccdit habitu rubustiori ; foliis 
majoribus ; floribus plenis, rubris. 
R. miiltijfora, var. platyphylla Thory in Redoutc,/v(?5'<?5, vol. ii. p. 69, t. (1821). — 
Lindley in Bat. Reg. vol. xvi. t. 1372 (1830). — I'ranchct iSj Savaticr, Hiiinii. PL Jap. 
vol. i. p. 134 (1874). — Crcpin in Bull. Soc. Bot. Bclg. vol. .xxv. pt. 2, p. 188 f (886). — 
Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. vol. iv. ]). 1549 (1902). —C. K. Schneider, III. 
Haudbuch Laubliohk. vol. i. p. 540 (1906). 
R. Trattinnick, Ros. Mouogr. vol. i. j). 85 (1823). 
Stem reaching a height of 10-12 feet or more; pyiekles scattered, uniform, 
stout, hooked. Leaflets 5-7, oblong, acute, 1^-2 in. long, simply serrated, pubescent 
beneath; petioles j)ubescent, aciculate and glandular; stipules adnate, laciniated. 
Flowers many, in a corymbose panicle, double, red. 
This variety of Rosa niultijlora was introduced into England some 
time between 1815 and 1817. Noisette saw it growing in a nursery- 
garden near London and took back a plant with him to France, where 
it flowered in his garden in September 1819. Redoute’s drawing and 
Thory’s description were based upon this plant. The plate in the 
Botanical Register was from a plant growing in the Horticultural 
Society’s garden at Chiswick in 1830, where Lindley describes it as 
flowering in the most luxuriant manner and refers to it as the most 
beautiful of all the climbing Roses of our gardens. Loudon gives an 
excellent woodcut in his A rhoretuinl and says : “A plant of this variety, 
on the gable end of Mr. Donald’s house, in the Goldworth Nursery, 
in 1826, covered about 100 square feet, and had more than 100 corymbs 
of bloom. Some of the corymbs had more than 50 buds in a cluster, 
and the whole averaged about 30 in each corymb ; so that the amount 
of flower buds was about 3,000. The variety of colour produced by 
the buds at first opening was not less astonishing than their number. 
White, light blush, deeper blush, light red, darker red, scarlet, and 
purple flowers, all appeared in the same corymb, and the production 
of these seven colours at once is said to be the reason why this plant 
is called the ‘ Seven Sisters Rose! This tree produced a shoot the 
same year which grew 18 feet in length in two or three weeks.” The 
' Vol. ii. p. 774 (1838). 
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