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its bright green color and does not fall until after that of other Vibur- 
nums has disappeared. This shrub has not yet flowered in the Arbor- 
etum. Viburnum furcatum from Japan and Korea is closely related 
and resembles the North American Hobblebush or Moosewood, V. alni- 
folium often called V. lantanoides. The Japanese plant is growing in 
the Arboretum but has not yet flowered here. It is as handsome a 
plant as the American species, and will probably prove equally difficult 
to manage. 
A Handsome Chinese Rose. In 1804 a Rose reached England from 
China and when it flowered was found to have small, clustered, double 
pink flowers. It soon found its way to France and in 1821 received 
the name of R. multiflora carnea. Redoute made it the subject of 
one of his graceful Rose portraits in Les Roses, the most beautiful of 
the many books devoted to Roses. In 1817 another of the double red 
or pink flowered multiflora Roses was sent from China to England and 
then to France. This plant received there the name of Rosa multi- 
flora platyphylla and its portrait was also painted by Redoute. It was 
called in England the “Seven Sisters Rose” and soon became a popu- 
lar garden plant in Europe and the United States. Now it has almost 
disappeared from gardens, having been replaced by the Rambler Roses 
of more recent introduction. The Crimson Rambler Rose, which is 
now one of the most popular Roses in the northern United States, is 
evidently a selected form of R. multiflora platyphylla and has been 
widely cultivated in China probably for centuries. From China it 
reached Japan, and in 1878 came from Japan to England. Rosa multi- 
flora itself, which is a Japanese species with large clusters of small 
white single flowers, has been known to botanists since 1784 but did 
not reach England until about 1875. Seeds of this Rose were sent, 
however, from Germany a year earlier to the Arboretum where it has 
been largely used in the production of hybrid Rambler Roses. Nothing 
was known of the origin of the double pink and red-flowered Chinese 
multiflora Roses until 1897 when a French missionary, the Abbe Farges, 
sent from western China to Monsieur Maurice L. de Vilmorin seeds 
of a Rose which turned out to be a single pink-flowered R. multiflora, 
and certainly the plant from which they had been derived. A portrait 
of this plant in flower appeared in 1904 in the catalogue of the Fruti- 
cetum Vilmorinianum, but it was not named and seems to have been 
lost sight of. Wilson found it in western China where it is very com- 
mon, and collected seeds. William Purdom, also collecting for the Arbo- 
retum in Shensi in 1909, sent seeds here of this single-flowered Rose 
and the plants raised from these seeds are now flowering in the 
Arboretum for the third year. This Rose is now to be called R. 
multiflora, var. cathay ensis; it is a hardy, vigorous, and handsome 
plant with the habit of the Japanese R. multiflora. The flowers are 
from two to two and a half inches in diameter and are produced in 
large, many-flowered clusters, and the large, conspicuous, bright yel- 
low anthers add to the beauty of the clear pink petals. This Rose 
may well become a popular garden plant. It offers possibilities which 
the hybridist will undoubtedly take advantage of; and it is of consid- 
erable historical interest as the wild original of garden plants cultivated 
probably for centuries by the Chinese and known in Europe and America 
