Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds: empalements and peduncles hispid:
petioles prickly: stem armed with crooked red spines: flowers grow
in scattered umbels, with lance-shaped, reflexed floral leaves:
blossoms white.
Native of Germany.
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As a training Rose, this species is particularly estimable from the
rapidity of its growth. It also retains its leaves longer than most
roses, but is certainly, strictly speaking, not an evergreen. It so much
resembles the Rosa arvensis, that at first sight they might easily be
taken one for the other. It is a native of Germany, and was introduced
about the year 1629. Our drawing was made from a fine plant in the
collection of Isaac Swainson, esq. at Twickenham.
[Illustration]
ROSA Eglanteria Americana.
_American Eglantine Rose._