ROSA MICRO PH YL'LA. 
SMALL-LEAVED ROSE. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
E. Indies 
4 feet. 
August. 
Perennial. 
in 1823. 
No. 825. 
As all nations agree in their admiration of the 
Rose, so also have they agreed, to a considerable 
extent, in adopting for it a similar name ; founded, 
as it appears to be, on the Celtic rhos. 
This small-leaved, or rather small-leafleted. 
Rose, is one amongst the many hundreds of the 
same attractive family which can never escape the 
observation of any, who possess the slightest re- 
gard for the vegetable part of this world’s beauty 
— for the works which occupied its all-wise Origin- 
ator on the third day of creation. We would not 
libel a single individual, even the most ignorant of 
mankind, by supposing he could pass by and 
wholly disregard the beauty of the Rose. The 
veriest boor, amongst us, would, however, step 
forward and display his nosegay, to exculpate 
human nature from such aspersion. 
The Rosa microphylla has an evergreen shining- 
foliage, which, independently of its showy (low- 
ers, makes it desirable. It has the habit of the 
Macartney Rose (Rosa bracteolata), and Mr. 
Rivers reasonably suggests, that it may be a Chinese 
hybrid of such species. Italian seeds of it, under 
207. 
