b THE PROVENCE ROSE. 



appointment : it was probably the first Provence 

 Rose that made an approach to scarlet ; but the 

 faint carmine of its flowers is very far removed 

 from that rare colour among roses. 



The Unique Provence is a genuine English 

 rose, which was found by Mr. Grimwood,* then 

 of the Kensington Nursery, in some cottage- 

 garden, gTOwiug among plants of the common 

 Cabbage Rose. This variety was at first much 

 esteemed, and plants of it were sold at very high 

 prices. Most probably this was not a seedling 

 from the Old Cabbage Rose, as that is too double 

 to bear seed in this country, but what is called 

 by florists a sporting f branch or sucker. In 

 describing this and the next division I shall have 

 occasion to notice more of these spontaneous 



* Ml*. Grimwood, when on his annual business journey in 

 1777, perceived a beautiful white rose growing in the garden of 

 Mr. Eiclimond, a baker, living near Needham Market, Suffolk ; 

 on inquiry, he found that it had been planted there by a car- 

 penter, who had found it growing near, or in a hedge a short 

 distance from, the house of a Dutch merchant, which he had been 

 repairing. Mr. G-rimwood asked for a branch, but obtained the 

 entire plant, which Mr. Richmond willingly gave him. On his 

 next journey, the following year, Mr. Grim wood made him a 

 present of a handsome silver cup, on which was engraved a 

 figure of the rose : this kind remembrance Mr. Richmond most 

 carefully preserved till his death. — JRoses, by H. C. Andrews, 

 London, 1805, 4to. 



t A term used to denote any portion of a plant departing 

 from the character the entire plant should sustain. Thus, one 

 stem of a carnation, which should give striped flowers uniform 

 with the rest, will often produce plain-coloured flowers; it is 

 then said ' to sport.' 



