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THE study of our British roses has been rendered increasingly difficult by successive attempts to classify the numerous forms—species or varieties—in a satisfactory system. The late Mr. J. G. Baker in his “Monograph of British Roses” in 1869 recognised thirteen species and a moderate number of varieties. In the “London Catalogue of British Plants” (1908) some of Baker's varieties are raised to specific rank, and twenty-five species and a large number of additional varieties are recognised. Wolley-Dod's “List of British Roses” (1911) included about 170 names, but in his “Revised Arrangement” recently published in the Journal of Botany the number of names having full specific rank is reduced to eighteen, the author remarking that most of the very detailed descriptions of Déséglise and other specialists can scarcely be other than those of an individual bush or specimen which cannot be completely matched by any other.
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The Study of British Roses. Nature 107, 26 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107026a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107026a0