RO'SA IN'DICA. 
Variety, Geant des Batailles. 
CHINA ROSE. 
Class. Order. 
ICOSANDRTA. POLYGYNIA. 
• Natural Order. 
ROSACEiE. 
Of hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Origin. | 
6 feet. 
JunetoNov. 
Shrub. 
in 1847. 
No. 1233. 
The derivation of Rosa has been lately noticed. 
Indica includes a numerous progeny, so very dif- 
ferent in their flowers, and in their manner of growth, 
that the common observer has little chance of deter- 
mining them ; it is indeed difficult for the botanist, 
with written characters before him, to point out the 
species to which many of the newly-raised species 
should be annexed. This has arisen from the thou- 
sands of seedlings that have, of late years, been pro- 
pagated. Species and varieties have been mingled 
over and over again, and selection after selection 
made, till the offspring, losing all character of the 
parents, has come forth as a new individual, more 
brilliant and beautiful than any of its progenitors. 
These have been raised, chiefly in France, no incon- 
siderable portion of the motive power being generated 
in England. But why should we carry our gold to 
the continent, to Rose growers ? At the cost of a 
shilling for land, and an almost inappreciable amount 
of labour, the English amateur — or even the mere 
cottager, may raise Rose trees from seed, and secure 
to himself the chance of being the propagator of a 
new variety, worth more than his whole year’s labour. 
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