ROSA FOLIOLOSA 
There appears to be some uncertainty with regard to the colour 
of the flowers of Rosa foliolosa in a wild state. None of the botanists 
who have collected it have recorded this definitely, and the plants 
raised from seed at the Arnold Arboretum are stated in Gai'deii and 
Forest ^ to have pale yellow or creamy white flowers, whilst the flowers 
on the plants growing at Kew and at Warley are bright pink and 
rather large. It is quite hardy in England and increases by under- 
ground stems ; a peculiarity is that the blossoms are produced on the 
second year’s growth, after which the branches dwindle and die, 
making way for the new growth. 
' Vol. iv. p. 66 (1891). 
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