ROSE, with round seed-buds, and smooth; peduncles and petioles
smooth; the leaflets are ovate, notched, and smooth; the flowers
are marbled, and of a purple colour; the stem and branches are very
prickly; the prickles straight out, and of a whitish colour.
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This fine Marbled Variety of the _spinosissima_ is certainly much more
desirable than its original, but is by no means so abundant; and we
think it is a smaller or more dwarf-growing plant: but not having seen
more than two plants of it in bloom, we cannot be quite certain of its
character in that particular. The flowers are somewhat smaller than in
the White, and one of the specimens in bloom at the nursery of Malcolm
and Co., Kensington, still smaller than our figure of it, but fully
equal in beauty and richness of colour to the plant from which our
figure was made at the nursery of Messrs. Loddige, Hackney; but so
variable are the Striped and Marbled Roses, that we cannot expect them
often to stand the test of comparison. It is an early blooming Rose, but
not of long duration; beginning to flower the latter end of May, and
seldom lasting more than three weeks.
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ROSA nana, _minima_.
_Smallest Dwarf, or True Pompone Rose._