ROSE, with sweet-scented leaves and egg-shaped seed-buds; peduncles
hispid; stem and petioles prickly; prickles large and recurved; the
leaflets are ovate, rusty beneath, and glandulosely hairy.
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This fine semi-double variety of the Sweet Briar is an acquisition
highly esteemed; and so we think will be every addition to this charming
species, whose leaves diffuse such aromatic fragrance. In its
semi-double flowers only, it is particularly distinct from the Single,
and certainly makes a much handsomer appearance. Its flowers are
gracefully crowded together, but rarely more than two flowers expand at
one time; but the succession of buds approaching maturity gives it a
very picturesque appearance. We observed but a slight proportion of the
rusty character so powerfully attached to the wild species. Its fruit,
when ripening, acquires a beautiful orange red, which is an addition to
the plant when out of bloom. There is a paler-coloured variety of this
plant, of stouter growth, but which we have not as yet examined with
sufficient accuracy, to ascertain whether it is distinct enough to
require a separate figure.
Our drawing was made from a fine plant in the nursery of Messrs.
Loddige, Hackney.
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ROSA Gallica, _officinalis_.
_Officinal or French Red Rose._