Rose with nearly round seed-buds, smooth. Peduncles hispid. Flowers
semi-double, and flesh-coloured. Leaves spreading. Leaflets ovate,
ribbed, and notched at the edges. Stem and petioles very prickly.
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This fine semi-double Rose is generally known by the appellation of the
Double Red Scotch. It is evidently a thorny Rose, and powerfully
resembles the _spinosissima_ in most particulars except the flowers,
whose pale delicate character reminds us so much of the _Indica_, that,
were a flower detached from the plant, and compared with that
ever-blooming species in a confined mode of culture, the resemblance
would be found considerable. How or by whom it was first cultivated, we
have not been able to learn with any degree of certainty: it must,
therefore, with several other unavoidable deficiencies of the same
description, pass on till the conclusion of the work, when we shall be
better enabled to fill up these little chasms--at the same time that we
give a Dissertation on the Genus.
Our figure was made from fine plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley
and Brames.
[Illustration]
ROSA Indica rubra.
_Red Indian Rose._