28— ROSA CniNKNSIS, var. PSliU 1 ) 0-1 N DICA 
fortune’s douhlk yellow, or realty of glazenwood 
/Cost/ c//ijic>isis, var. pscudo-indica {jiov. a t)'p() reccdit habitu sarnicntoso, 
foliolis firmioribus, floribus suaveolL'iitibus, plenis, liiteis, dorso riibro tinctis. 
R. pseiido-i)idica Lind ley, Ros. Monogy. p. 132 (1820). 
In/rtunes Rouble Yellow Lindley in Joiir/i. llort. Soc. vol. vi. p. 52 (1851). — 
Hooker in Bol. Mag. vol. Ixxviii. t. 4679 (1852). — Flore des Serres, vol. viii. t. 769 
(1852). 
R. Fortuuia/ia Paxton, Flower Garden , vol. iii. p. 157 (1852-3). — Lemaire, 
Jarditt Fleur, vol. iv. t. 361 (1853). 
Branches long and sarinentose ; prickles strongly hooked. Leaflets 5-7, oblong, 
ih-2 in. long, glossy, firm in texture, sharply simply serrated ; petioles armed with 
hooks. Flowers often 3 or 4 in a corymb, sweet-scented, always double ; petals 
salmon-yellow, tinged on the outside with red. 
This Rose is hardly to be surpassed in beauty. It attracted the 
attention of the celebrated botanical collector Robert Fortune when, 
in 1842-6, he was travelling in China in search of new plants for the 
H orticultural Society of London. Whilst at Ningpo he paid frequent 
visits to the different nurseries, and also to the gardens of the Man- 
darins, which, although small, were extremely gay, particularly during 
the early months of the year, and contained a number of new plants of 
great beauty and interest. In his narrative' he thus describes his first 
view of the Rose: “On entering one of the gardens on a fine morning- 
in May, I was struck by a mass of yellow flowers which completely 
covered a distant part of the wall ; the colour was not a common yellow, 
but had something of buff in it, which gave the flower a striking and 
uncommon appearance. I immediately ran up to the place, and to 
my surprise and delight found that I had discovered a most beautiful 
new yellow climbing Rose. I have no doubt from what I afterwards 
learned that this Rose is from the more northern districts of the Chinese 
empire and will prove perfectly hardy in England.” He sent plants 
to Chiswick in 1 845. Lindlcy’s description sounds tame after b'ortune’s 
* Journal of the Horticultural Society, vol. i. p. 218(1 846). 
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