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like down, fragrant when rubbed, their serratures fringed with glands: 

 the petioles downy, prickly, glandular: the peduncles terminating, 

 mostly solitary, one-flowered, rough with rigid glandular bristles: 

 the germ globular, bristly : the segments of the calyx long, downy, 

 prickly on the outside: the corolla of a full rose-colour, not very 

 odoriferous: the fruit globular, larger than in any other sort, and for 

 the most part bristly and blood-red. It is found in Europe and Asia, 

 and known as the cultivated sort in plantations, &c., both in a single 

 and double state. 



The fruit has a pleasant acid pulp surrounding the seeds, and is 

 sometimes made into a conserve or sweetmeat, and served up at table 

 in deserts,- &c. 



The twelfth species is well known in gardens, and one of the 

 most beautiful sorts: the flowers are sometimes very large, and the 

 petals closely folded over each other, like cabbages, whence it is 

 called the Cabbage Rose: the flowers have the most fragrant odour 

 of all the sorts. 



According to Parkinson, the Great Double-Damask Provence, 

 or Holland Rose, has its bark of a reddish or brown colour: the 

 leaves likewise more reddish than in others, and somewhat larger. 

 It usually grows very like the Damask Rose, and much to the same 

 height: the flowers are of the same deep blush colour, or rather some- 

 what deeper, but much thicker, broader, and more double by three 

 parts almost, the outer leaves turning back, when the flower hath 

 stood long blown, the middle part itself being folded hard with small 

 leaves: the scent comes nearest the Damask Rose, but is much short 

 of it. 



There are several varieties^ as the Red Provence Rose: the stem 

 and branches are not so great as those of the other, but greener, the 

 bark not being so red: the flowers are not so large, thick and double, 

 but of a little deeper damask or blush colour, turning to red, but not 

 coming near the full colour of the best Red Rose: nor is the scent 

 so sweet as that of the Damask Provence, but coming near that of 

 the ordinary Red Rose. It is not so plentiful in bearing as the Da- 

 mask Provence. 



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