STANWELL PERPETUAL 
Mr. Sabine concludes his interesting paper upon “ The Double 
Scotch Roses” by referring to the “Tall Double Scotch Rose.” 
Although, according to his practice, he refrains from giving its popular 
name, there can be no doubt as to its identity, for he cites Miss 
Lawrance’s drawing of Stanwell Perpetual. He saw the Rose 
growing in Lee and Kennedy’s nursery and ascertained that it had 
come from Dr. Pitcairn’s garden at Islington, but of its previous 
history nothing could be traced. It is evidently of garden origin, but 
it is difficult to determine its parentage, and it has not been known to 
produce fruit. We give Sabine’s description of the Rose in his own 
words : 
“ The plant differs much from the Scotch Roses, being of taller growth, and 
looser habit ; the branches do not grow thickly together, but detached ; the aculei 
are of various sizes, and straight, but they are generally small, and many are more 
like setae than aculei ; the petioles are hairy, the foliola are not flat, but folded 
together, and bend back at their connection with the petiole; their colour is a paler 
green than is usual in the foliola of Scotch Roses ; they are also more elliptical and 
more acutely serrated ; and their under surfaces are hairy. The peduncles are 
short, not stiffly upright, thickening towards the top, and having glandiferous 
setae; the germen is long, ovate, and smooth, with long narrow sepals, which when 
the flower opens, are reflected quite to the peduncle. Mhe bud is a bright pink ; 
the flower is large and double, having a fine rich scent ; it opens cupped, and has 
no resemblance to the flowers of the Double Scotch Roses ; the centre has a very 
delicate and beautiful tinge of pale carmine, approaching to flesh colour ; the outside 
petals are so much paler, as to be almost white ; the interior petals gradually become 
shorter and smaller as they approach the centre, and the stamina are seen amongst 
them ; the petals have occasionally a stripe of carmine in them, like to that of a 
carnation, or similar to the variegation of the York and Lancaster Rose. The 
flowers become paler after they have been some time expanded, and as they open in 
succession, there is a great variety of appearance when the plant is in full bloom. 
It comes into flower after the true Scotch Roses are over, and is a very desirable 
plant for any garden.” 1 
1 Trans. Hort. Soc. Nov. 7, 1820. 
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