RO SA HAR'DIL 
hardy’s rose. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEiE. 
Hybrid 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Origin. 
3 feet. 
June & July 
Shrub. 
1 in 1836. 
No. 869. 
The derivation of the word Rosa has been lately 
noticed. It will be remembered that it was founded 
on the prevailing colour of the flower; in the 
present instance, however, our specimen falsifies 
its own name. Monsieur Hardy, whose name is 
appended to our present novel Rose, is the curator 
of the Luxemburg garden, where it was raised 
from seed. 
The gardens of Luxemburg are under the autho- 
rity of the French government; and these, having 
been so particularly devoted to the cultivation of 
Roses, have assisted much in giving an impetus to 
the propagation of seedling varieties, for which 
France has of late years been so eminent. 
The first mention which we have of the Rosa 
Hardii, which we have now the pleasure of figuring, 
was in 1836, by a correspondent of the Gardeners’ 
Magazine, who tells us he brought it to England, 
from Luxemburg. There it was originated as a 
hybrid, between that Persian curiosity — the Rosa 
berberifolia, and a variety of the bracteata, or 
Macartney Rose. 
Of the Persian parent of the curious production 
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