ROSA CENTIFOLIA, var. CRISTATA 
Essex. Miss Adams of Witham made a drawing of it which was 
published in the Botanical Magazine , accompanied by a short note by 
Curtis, who speaks enthusiastically of its beauty and rarity. The only 
other illustration I have met with is in William Paul’s Rose Garden , l 
where it is described as an extraordinary and beautiful Rose. The 
plate is inadequate, for, although it shows the abnormal traits of Rosa 
cristata , it gives little idea of its beauty. 
Rosa cristata is generally believed to have originated in Switzer- 
land ; we have seen what Prevost says of its origin ; Paul speaks of a 
convent garden near Berne as its birthplace ; Rivers 2 says it was 
discovered growing from a crevice of a wall at Freiburg. It was 
introduced by Vibert about 1827. 
1 P. 27 (1848). 2 Rose Amateur's Guide , p. 12 (1840). 
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