ROSE, with many-flowered panicles, scented like musk; peduncles
villose, petioles prickly; the leaflets are oblong, pointed, and
smooth; the spines of the branches are broad, scattered, and
straight.
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This variety of the Musk Rose differs but little, if at all, from the
single, except in its semi-double flowers, which in that particular give
to the plant a very distinct appearance; but in every other respect it
is so closely allied, that it may justly be called the prototype of the
former; more especially as upon the single plant double flowers have
sometimes been found, but not frequent; and careful cultivation has now
rendered it a circumstance of very rare occurrence. Its blossoms
certainly form a richer appearance than the single; their fragrance is
by some thought stronger, by others weaker; on the propriety of which we
shall make no further comment, than merely to observe that we regard an
appeal to the olfactory organs of all references the most imperfect.
This plant, as well as the former, is frequently on the upper part of
the branches free from spines, but on the lower part of the stems they
are extremely large and strong.
Our figure was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Colville,
King’s Road.
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ROSA indica.
_Indian Rose._