SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Rose with round seed-buds, smooth, and of a dark purple colour: flowers with crowded petals: footstalks smooth, and furnished at the base with a large bract or floral leaf: leaves of a deep green, and wrinkled, glaucous on the under side: footstalks prickly: stem prickly, with scattered spines in pairs.
Native of the South of Europe.
The odour of Cinnamon, which this early blooming Rose is supposed to possess, has furnished it with a specific title by which it is well known. It is a very old species, and said to have been introduced from the south of Europe as long ago as the year 1569. Like all those roses whose flowers are very double, the petals are subject to be disorganised by the prevalence of easterly winds, to which its early bloom is liable. It is only increased by layers, as the abundance of the petals absorbing all the stamina precludes the fruit’s increase.
