Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds: peduncles and footstalks hispid:
flowers with many petals and equal: leaves smooth: leaflets oblong,
pointed, and sawed: stem smooth, nearly without thorns.
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This Rose was introduced to this country from Holland about the year
1802. The only title we have heard given to it by cultivators is Double
Thornless White Rose,--an appellation certainly not very descriptive of
the plant; for, although it is thornless on the upper part, yet at the
base of the stem it is thorny. The flowers are sometimes white, but we
have oftener seen them tinged with a pale pinky colour. In size and
shape they are like the Burgundy Rose, and in the foliage they resemble
the Rosa moschata, but are very distinct from either, and altogether
very different from any species with which we are at present acquainted.
It is slow of increase, as are all the distinctly new Roses we have
hitherto met with, which probably is (for a time) a genuine trait of
their originality. Our figure is from a plant in the nursery of Messrs.
Whitley and Brames, in the month of June 1808.
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ROSA lurida.
_Lurid Rose._