In 1862 Dr. Maximowicz discovered near Lake Hakone, in Central Japan, the original type of the Microphylla rose in a spontaneous condition - the species being only known before from the cultivated forms introduced from Chinese gardens. It had solitary flowers with yellowish petals, and is marked in the herbarium of the Botanical Society of St. Petersburg, Rosa chlorocarpa. The fruit is spinescent, and gives the appearance of a small chestnut; large, pulpy and eatable, the flavor by no means disagreeable. In France, what we have for Red Microphylla, is often called the old purple, as we judge from a note in the Journal des Roses, from which we condense these remarks.

They have now started the improvement of this class, and have already Triomphe de la Guillotiere, raised by Guillot in 1864; Premier Essai, by Ge-schwind in 1866; Imbricata, by Ducher in 1869; and Ma Surprise, by J. B. Guillot in 1872.