Our figure was taken from a luxuriant specimen of this fine training Rose, communicated by the Hon. W. Irby. [Illustration] ROSA canina; _Var. flore pleno_. _Dog-Rose; Double-flowered Variety._ CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Rosa germinibus rotundatis, pedunculisque glabris: floribus semi-duplicibus: petalis exteriorbus albicantibus, patentibus: interioribus pallide incarnatis, et apertis: caule et petiolis aculeatis: ramis gracilibus, flexuosis. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with roundish seed-buds, and smooth peduncles. Flowers semi-double: the outer petals are whitish, and spreading: the inner are of a pale flesh colour, and unclosed. The stem and petioles are prickly. Branches slender, and flexuose. * * * * * This elegant little Rose is a most desirable variety of the wild species, and would be extremely ornamental if trained against a wall. We have not been able to learn for certain by whom it was first cultivated, but are inclined to think it the spontaneous effusion of nature unassisted by art; and are rather surprised that it should not have become long before now an object of general culture: but, as we understand it is rather shy of flowering, that in some measure accounts for an otherwise apparent neglect of beauty. We have no doubt, however, when it becomes abundantly cultivated, it may also prove a plant of freer bloom. From the light, airy, graceful character of its flowers, we are convinced that to be sought after it need but to be seen. Our figure was made from the only plant we have ever seen in bloom, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames. [Illustration] ROSA canina, _variegata_. _Variegated-leaved Dog-Rose_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. Rosa germinibus globosis, glabris: pedunculis leviter hispidis: floribus albis, tenuibus: foliis variegatis: foliolis ovatis, acutis, serratis: ramis patentibus: caule humili vel repente. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with round seed-buds, smooth. Peduncles slightly hispid. Flowers white, and thin. Leaves variegated. Leaflets ovate, sharp-pointed, and sawed. Branches spreading. Stem low or creeping. * * * * *