ROSA RUGOSA 
Thunberg described it many years before it was cultivated in 
Europe. Bunge saw it in cultivation in the north of China, and 
most probably it was this Rose which was seen by La Perouse in the 
Bay of Ternai on the coast of Tartary. 1 Its introduction into this 
country in 1796 is due to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, to whom we 
owe so many of the good plants in our gardens. In cultivation with 
us it is the least exacting of all the Roses, every position and every 
soil suiting it perfectly. It hybridizes freely and seems to preserve 
at least one distinctive character, that of its reticulate, rugose leaves, 
which appears in a greater or lesser degree in all the hybrids, certainly 
to the third generation. 
Meyer in his monograph on the Cinnamomeae 2 names and de- 
scribes six varieties, which he calls respectively Thunbergiana , ferox, 
Lindleyana , Chamissoana , Ventenatiana and submermis. 
This Rose is figured by Andrews 3 and by Miss Lawrance 4 under 
the name of Rosa ferox. 
1 Voyage de La Perouse autour du Monde , vol. iii. p, 49 (1798). 
2 In Mini. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg ; ser. 6, vol. vi. p. 33 ( Ueber die Zimmtrosen , p. 33) (1847). 
3 Roses, vol. ii. t. 129 (1828). 
4 Roses, t. 42 (1799). 
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