28— ROSA CHINENSIS, var. PSEUDO-INDICA 
fortune’s double yellow, or BEAUTY of glazenwood 
Rosa chinensis , var. pseudo-indica (nov. nom .) : a typo recedit habitu sarmentoso, 
foliolis firmiotfbus, floriqus suaveolentibus, plenis, luteis, dorso rubro tinctis. 
R. pseudo-indica Lind ley, Ros. Monogr. p. 132 (1820). 
Fortune s Double Yellow Lindley in Journ. Hort. Soc. vol. vi. p. 52 (1851). — 
Hooker in Bot. Mag. vol. lxxviii. t. 4679 (1852). — Flore des Serres , vol. viii. t. 769 
(1852). 
R. Fortuniana Paxton, Flower Garden, vol. iii. p. 157 (1852-3). — Lemaire, 
Jar din Fleur, vol. iv. t. 361 (1853). 
Branches long and sarmentose ; prickles strongly hooked. Leaflets 5-7, oblong, 
iJ-2 in. long, glossy, firm in texture, sharply simply serrated ; petioles armed with 
hooks. Flowers often 3 or 4 in a corymb, sweet-scented, always double ; petals 
salmon-yellow, tinged on the outside with red. 
This Rose is hardly to be surpassed in beauty. It attracted the 
attention of the celebrated botanical collector Robert Fortune when, 
in 1842-6, he was travelling in China in search of new plants for the 
H orticultural Society of London. Whilst at Ningpo he paid frequent 
visits to the different nurseries, and also to the gardens of the Man- 
darins, which, although small, were extremely gay, particularly during 
the early months of the year, and contained a number of new plants of 
great beauty and interest. In his narrative 1 he thus describes his first 
view of the Rose: “On entering one of the gardens on a fine morning 
in May, I was struck by a mass of yellow flowers which completely 
covered a distant part of the wall ; the colour was not a common yellow, 
but had something of buff in it, which gave the flower a striking and 
uncommon appearance. I immediately ran up to the place, and to 
my surprise and delight found that I had discovered a most beautiful 
new yellow climbing Rose. I have no doubt from what I afterwards 
learned that this Rose is from the more northern districts of the Chinese 
empire and will prove perfectly hardy in England.” He sent plants 
to Chiswick in 1845. Lindley’s description sounds tame after Fortunes 
1 Journal of the Horticultural Society , vol. i. p. 218 (1846). 
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