ROSA WOODSII 
about “ Mr. Joseph Woods’ Rose” in Botanical Register , Lindley 
deplores the error and misapprehension which have been the fate of 
this Rose. He proceeds to say that it was first mentioned in a little 
work on the nomenclature of Roses, by M. de Pronville, who stated, 
upon the authority of a cheating gardener, that it bore yellow flowers 
with a black centre. The passage occurs in de Pronville’s book 
after the description of Rosa pimpinellifolia L., and is as follows: 
“ M. Noisette a recu d’Angleterre un rosier qui parait etre une 
variete du pimpinellifolia, et qui vient du Missouri, Amerique-Septen- 
trionale. ^I. Kennedy I’a envoye sous le nom de Rose lutea, nigra — 
not quite so bad as Lindley’s version. De Pronville himself alludes 
to the incident in his I'rench translation of Lindley’s Monograph L' 
“ M. Sabine assure que c’est cette plante qui a ete envoyee en France 
d’une de nos pepinieres comme un nouveau Rosier d’Amerique, portant 
des fleurs noires et jaunes, et cite sous ce rapport, dit M. Lindley, 
dans I’oLivrage de M. de Pronville. On le croit indigene du ^Missouri.” 
It was Noisette who first brought Rosa Woodsii to de Pronville’s 
notice. It flowered in M. Vallee’s garden at Versailles, and in 1823 
with de Pronville, to whom Sabine had given a plant. 
There is an excellent plate in the Botanical Register from the 
plant growing in the Horticultural Society’s garden at Chiswick. W e 
have thought well to illustrate both the pink and the white forms. The 
former is from a specimen in the Royal Gardens, Kew, and is some- 
what olT type in being unarmed and in having cernuous peduncles. 
The white form is very rarely to be met with in gardens. The 
drawing was made from the plant growing at Warle}'. 
* Nomenclature raison na du Genre Rosier, p. 23 (181S). 
* Monogr. du Genre Rosier, p. 39 (1824). 
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