ROSA DUPONTII 
accompanying description Lindley says that it is the most beautiful 
single Rose he knows, and that it was raised by the French grower 
Dupont. The drawing was made from a plant growing in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, whither it had been sent from 
Versailles by De Pronville, who had recently published an excellent 
F rench translation of Lindley’ s Monograph, containing much additional 
information about Roses. 
William Paul, writing about the Musk Rose in the Rose Garden , 
says that it is common in Madeira and the north of Africa and is also 
found in Persia, and that, having been introduced into England about 
the year i 596, it has by reason of its long residence among us become 
widely spread throughout the country. He enumerates twelve hybrids 
by name. 1 The American writer Parsons 2 says that the Musk Rose 
grows naturally in Persia and other eastern countries, where it some- 
times attains the dimensions of a small tree, and it is doubtless the 
Rose which has been celebrated by eastern poets. He mentions a 
plant in his own garden which had withstood the rigour of twenty 
N ew York winters. According to Rivers, 3 Olivier, who travelled in 
the first six years of the French Republic, describes a Rose-tree at 
Ispahan called the “ Chinese Rose-tree,” which was fifteen feet in 
height and was formed by the union of several stems, each four or five 
inches in diameter. Seeds from this tree were sent to Paris, where 
they produced the common Musk Rose. 
Deseglise considers that Rosa Dupontii differs from the type Rosa 
moschata Mill, in having glabrous calyx and sepals, and leaves which 
are oval and pubescent on the under side. He gives its period of 
flowering as June, and its habitat as Maine-et-Loire, and says that 
Boreau found a specimen growing in a hedge near Angers. This 
hedge was afterwards destroyed, but the bush was transplanted to the 
Botanic Garden. Boreau’s plant disappeared during the changes 
which the garden has undergone since his time and no trace of it can 
now be found. 
1 Rose Garden , pt. 2, p. 150 (1848). 
2 The Rose , p. 262 ( 1 847). 
3 Rose Amateur's Guide , ed. 11, p. 155 (1877). 
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