8 9 — ROSA SPINOSISSIMA, var. AN DREWS 1 1 
Rosa spinosissima , var. Andrewsii : a formis minoribus typicis recedit floribus 
paulum plenis, rubris. 
This very pretty little Rose is the form of Rosa spinosissima most 
generally met with in old French gardens. Sometimes it occurs in 
hedges parting off flowers from vegetables, sometimes in isolated 
bushes, and it is rarely absent from the village curd’s garden. Its 
power of renewing itself under any conditions of neglect and starvation 
accounts for its being still with us whilst many of the other Scotch 
Roses, at one time so plentiful, have long since disappeared. 
Andrews has nine plates of Scotch Roses, and his Rosa spinosis- 
sima nana , one of the three forms on plate 123, is evidently intended 
for the present Rose, although it is never actually so vivid in colour as 
in his drawing. Miss Lawrance has two drawings of single red forms 
of Rosa spinosissima , and her plate 1 5 represents a very pretty variegated 
form which may be the Rosa nova variegata of Du Pont referred to 
by Thory. 1 Redoute’s Grande Pimprenelle aux Cent- Reus is described 
by Thory as resembling Du Font’s Rose, but finer and more beautiful 
in every respect ; 2 it has long disappeared from cultivation. 
These are but a few out of the large number of varieties to which 
hybrids of Rosa spinosissima have given rise, for in the space available 
it has only been possible to mention some of the more notable among 
them. 
1 Gym. Ros. p. 14 (1813). 
2 Roses, vol. ii. p. 103 (1821). 
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