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SPECIES AND VARIETIES, 
ness is the mere work of a fertile imagination. When any one has 
got Rosa berberifolia, he need not trouble himself about whether hq 
has it from the seed raised by Mons. Hardy, or the seed raised by his 
predecessors. There is no more variation, and no more hybrid about 
either, than there is in two plants of small salad. 
Rosa Microphylla. 
This, we are told, is nearly allied to the Macartney Rose; so are 
the varieties of it, and ought not to have been separated. 
Qusen (Rosa ‘bourboaiana). 
