RO'SA SPINOSIS'SIMA. 
SPINIEST 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
SCOTCH ROSE. 
Tar. Ladj- Campbell. 
Order. 
rOLYGAMIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA. 
Garden 
Height. 
Flowers in I 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Origin. 
3 feet. 
June, July 
Shrub. 
in 1831. 
No. 989. 
Rosa, or a word in some degree resembling it, is 
used in all European languages, to signify a red 
colour. Spinosissima, as a specific name, has been 
very correctly applied to the Scotch Roses ; they 
may tmly be said to be superlatively spiny. 
From the name Scotch being attached to this 
dwarf species, it may be supposed that it is a Rose 
peculiar to Scotland ; this, it should be obseiwed, 
is not the fact ; for it is not only found in various 
pails of England and the European continent, but 
it is also mentioned as being a native of China, 
even in districts below twenty degrees of latitude. 
Scotland should, however, be awarded the merit 
of introducing it to notice, which was first done by 
Mr. Brown, of Perth nurseiy, who raised many 
choice varieties; as did also Mr. Austin, of Glas- 
gow. The wild little bushes, a foot or less high, 
which are met with in the north of England and 
Scotland, bearing single white flowers, had pre- 
viously attracted very little attention. The seed- 
ling varieties now amount to hundreds, many with 
beautiful ranunculus-shaped flowers ; others quite 
globular, and varying in tint from white through 
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