Rose with smooth seed-buds flatly rounded: leaves oval, sawed at
the edges, and nearly glaucous: petioles prickly: flowers terminate
the smaller branches: blossom yellow: petals numerous, and crowded
together: stem branching, and armed with crooked spines.
Native of the Levant.
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This fine yellow Rose is a native of the Levant, and not to be met with
in flower in any of the nursery-grounds very near London. We have not
seen it even in a budding state nearer than Brentford, in the collection
of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, whence our drawing was
begun last year from a fine plant with numerous buds, not one of which
expanded sufficiently perfect for us to represent. To complete our
figure, we this year received some fine specimens communicated by the
Hon. W. Irby, collected from a gentleman’s garden in the neighbourhood
of Farnham, a distance of between twenty and thirty miles, and we
believe the nearest approximation to the metropolis in which it can be
found in perfect bloom. Even in the most congenial situations it is
subject to an irregularity of inflorescence, from the extreme complexity
of its petals, occasionally bursting at the sides, and destroying the
symmetry of its appearance. We have never seen it lighter in colour than
we have represented, certainly much too deep a yellow to exemplify the
pallid hue of sulphur. It flowers in the month of June, and was
introduced to this country in the year 1629.
[Illustration]
ROSA Cinnamomea, _multiplex_.
_Double Cinnamon Rose._