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Definition of China rose
1. Noun. Shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses.
2. Noun. Large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers.
Generic synonyms: Hibiscus
Lexicographical Neighbors of China Rose
Literary usage of China rose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"China rose. BENGAL ROSE. Low upright shrub with slender branches usually armed
with scat- tered stout compressed more or less hooked prickles, ..."
2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"Rose, the Provence, Flanders Rose, sweet-scented guelder, from China rose, tub1,
fn>m Java and Ceylon Rose without thorns, N. America, before Rosemary, 8. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The Noisette Rose was raised about 1817 by John Champney, of Charleston, SC, from
seed of the Musk Rose fertilized by a blush China rose. ..."
4. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"The China rose di. Indica) and the Crimson China rose (R. ... The Tea-scented
China rose (R. Indica odorata), the type of this section, is a native of China ..."
5. The Rose Garden in Two Divisions by William Paul (1848)
"(Monthly or Common China rose). A stout shrub, with glaucous branches armed with
scattered, compressed, equal hooked brown spines; the leaves are shining, ..."
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