ROSA MULTIFLORA, var. PLATYPHYLLA 
plant here referred to by Loudon only survived about three or four 
years. 
The Rose was known to Donn 1 under the names of Rosa Rox- 
burghii and Rosa Grevillii , and it was growing at Cambridge about 
the year 1845. 
The “ Seven Sisters Rose," which was once such a iavourite in our 
gardens, is now but rarely seen ; it appears to have been discarded in 
favour of later multiflora hybrids of more fashionable shades of colour, 
and also of the wild single type now so largely grown in the wild garden. 
Loudon considered the plant short-lived, and this may be another 
reason to account for its gradual disappearance. 
In China it is also known as the “ Seven Sisters Rose," but the 
Chinese ascribe the derivation of the name to the seven flowers which 
generally open at the same time on each corymb. 
1 Hort. Cant. ed. 13, p. 351 (1845). 
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