ROSA MULTIFLORA 
is a strikingly beautiful object. The flowers are borne in a long, loose 
panicle chiefly at the ends of the branches, and in such abundance 
that there are often more than two hundred blossoms on a panicle ; 
they have a faint, delicate scent. The plant is easily propagated either 
by cuttings or by seeds : it does not, however, increase much from the 
roots. Seeds sown in spring germinate in about a month. The type 
is frequently used as a stock on which to bud and graft other Roses. 
The plates in the Botanical Magazine 1 and the Botanical Register* 
represent garden forms. Rosa Jlorida of Poiret , 3 for which the plate 
in the Botanical Magazine is quoted, is also one of the garden forms. 
Rosa multiflora is figured by Andrews . 4 
1 Vol. xxvi. t. 1059 0807). 
2 Vol. v. t. 425 (1819). 
3 Lamarck, Encycl. Suppl. vol. iv. p. 715 (1S16). 
4 Roses, vol. ii. t. 83 (1828). 
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