ROSE, with round seed-buds; peduncles and petioles hispid; flowers
with many folds, and equal; leaflets ovate, sharp-pointed and
small, hairy beneath, with finely sawed edges; stem shrubby; the
spines of the branches are scattered and straight.
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This beautiful Dwarf Rose is certainly a very distinct species, and
generally known by the appellation of Burgundy Rose. It is an
early-blooming Rose, and makes a brilliant appearance. The flowers are
very double, of a rich red purple when in perfection, but of a paler or
bluer colour when retiring. It is very easily distinguished from any
other dwarf Rose, by the striking resemblance which it bears to the
Ranunculus, and from which a good specific name might have been derived,
had not the leaves (ever the most appropriate characteristic) furnished
an unexceptionable title, recently adopted by professor Willdenow in his
Species Plantarum.
Our drawing was made from fine plants at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley
and Brames.
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ROSA spinosissima.
_Thorny Rose._