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The Blush Provence Rose, in which the stalks rise from three to 

 tour feet hioh and are unarmed: the leaves are hairy on their under 

 side: the peduncles have some small spines: the segments ot" the 

 calyx are semi-pinnate : the corolla has five or six rows ot" petals, 

 which arc large, and spread open; they are of a pale blush colour, 

 and have a musky scent. 



The ^\ hile Provence Rose, which differs only in the colom- of the 

 flowers. . . 



The Great and Small Dwarf Provence Roses, called Rose de 

 Meaux, differ from each other in little except size: the smaller of the 

 two is generally known by nursery-men and gardeners by the name 

 of Pompone Rose. It throws out numerous stems, which rarely ex- 

 ceed a foot or a foot and half in height; usually straight, rigid, and 

 very prickly: the flowers very small, and distinguished by the bril- 

 liant colour of the central petals, appearing in June. 



All the sorts flower from Julv to Aueust. ■ 



The thirteenth rises with prickly stalks about three feet high: the 

 leaves have three or five leaflets, which are large, oval, smooth, and 

 of a dark green with purple edges: the peduncles are set with brown 

 bristly hairs: the segments of the calyx are smooth and semipinnate". 

 the flowers are very double, and of a deep red colour, but have little 

 scent. It is a native of China. 



The varieties are very numerous; as the Dutch Hundred-leaved 

 Rose; the Blush Hundred-leaved Rose; the Singleton's Hundred- 

 leaved Rose. - 



The Single and Donble Velvet Rose, which, according to Park- 

 inson, has the old stem covered with a dark-coloured bark, but the 

 young shoots of a sad green, with few or no thorns: the leaves are 

 of a sadder green than in most roses, and very often seven on a stalk: 

 the flower is single; or double with two rows of petals, the outer 

 larger, of a deep red like crimson velvet; or more double, widi six- 

 teen petals or more in a flower, most of them equal: they have all 

 less scent than the ordinary Red Rose. 



The Burgundy Robe, which is an elegant little plant, not more 

 than a foot or eighteen inelies in height. ?fev 



