RO'SA RUBIGINO'SA. 
Variety; The Duchess, 
SCARLET BRIAR. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA, 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEJE. 
Hybrid 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised 
Origin. 
3 feet. 
June &. July. 
Shrub. 
in 1820 ? 
No. 877. 
Rosa, signifying red, is explained under No. 177. 
Rosa rubiginosa, in its natural form, as the wild 
Eglantine, with pale single flowers, is indigenous to 
every part of Europe; but cultivation has stepped 
in and produced rich-coloured double varieties, 
from the simple child of nature, which we find it in 
our hedges. This, however, has not been effected 
without some degree of sacrifice. Nature is just in 
the distribution of her favours, even amongst the 
children of the wild Eglantine, and will not be 
coerced. On the Rose that we have figured she 
has bestowed beauty, superior to that of the Eglan- 
tine; but has withheld all the fragrance of the 
parent — the praise of the poets: the leaf of the 
gay flowered descendant is scentless as its thorn. 
The term. Eglantine, which every body uses, is 
sometimes misapplied, and this cannot be matter of 
surprise, when we find one of our first poets — even 
Milton, lead the way in error. In his Allegro, 
allusion is made to the Woodbine, under the title 
of Eglantine, 
“ Through the Sweet-briar, or the Vine, 
Or the twisted Eglantine.” 
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