Rose with globose seed-buds: empalements and peduncles hispid: stem
and branches armed with numerous prickles, straight, red, and
horizontally situated: leaves winged: leaflets oblong, equally
sawed, and shining: petioles red, smooth, and slightly armed:
flowers scattered: blossoms red.
Native of America.
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In the Hortus Kewensis we find this Rose described as having smooth
seed-buds and an unarmed stem; and the very reverse character being the
leading features by which our plant may at all times be discriminated,
induced us at first to imagine it might be a different species: but
finding upon inquiry amongst cultivators, that this Rose and no other is
perfectly known by the appellations of Rosa blanda, Hudson’s Bay or
Labradore Rose, we have therefore retained the name, but altered the
description. It is a very lively-looking little rose, whose bloom is
rather short in duration, but of quick succession, introduced to this
country in the year 1773. Our drawing was made from plants in the
nursery of Messrs. Loddige.
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ROSA centifolia, _holosericea_.
_Velvet-flowered Hundred-leaved Rose._