Rose with nearly round seed-buds and hispid peduncles: flowers
large, and semi-double: leaves spreading: leaflets ovate, large,
and glandular on the edges: the stem and petioles are furnished
with prickles recurved and red.
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This Eglantine Rose is the spontaneous effusion of nature in the
nursery-ground of Mr. Williams of Turnham Green, who informs me that he
found it on his premises in the year 1786, growing luxuriantly in the
midst of a hedge of single Sweetbriars. Its growth is so rapid, that it
will form shoots of seven and eight feet in one season; which joined to
the largeness of its flowers and foliage, induced us to adopt the
specific appellation of major, a title by which we think it may (at
present) be distinguished from any other, as the largest Sweetbriar we
have as yet seen is certainly altogether in size a minor, when compared
with this fine plant. Seeds, but not freely, and is propagated (slowly)
by layers.
[Illustration]
ROSA Eglanteria, _multiplex_.
_Double Eglantine Rose, or Williams’s Sweetbriar._