Rose with smooth egg-shaped seed-buds and hispid peduncles: flowers
white: leaflets ovate and pointed, with serrated margins, slightly
downy on the under side: stem between erect and spreading, nearly
smooth on the upper part, but furnished with strong spines towards
the base.
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This Rose is a native of Britain, and considered as the first on the
list of Garden Roses removed from the common Hedge or Dog Rose, its
charming wild original. The flowers are very fugitive, so soon falling
off that a specimen in fine bloom is not easily procured. It is the
source of several fine varieties, and flowers during the summer months,
but is in very few collections.
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ROSA Caroliniana; _Var. flore pleno_.
_Great Burnet-leaved Carolina Rose; Double-flowered Variety._