ROSA FOETIDA, var. BICOLOR 
This Rose and the Persian Yellow possess characters which 
make it possible to distinguish them readily from other Roses ; such 
characters are the tawny brown colour of the glistening stems, the 
many but solitary flowers, and their distinctive unpleasant odour. The 
leaves when crushed, however, have a slight perfume of sweet briar or 
apple. This Rose is rarely known to produce fruit, as it is deficient 
in pollen, but in 1893 M. Brun Joannes of Lyons succeeded, after 
eight years, in artificially pollinating all the flowers on his plant. The 
fruit was of the same reddish, well-burnished copper colour as the 
petals. 
The flowering branches should be shortened at midsummer in 
order to induce lateral growths, the natural tendency of the plant 
being to make shoots from the upper part of the branches. 
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