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

 four feet high, and are unarmed: the leaves are hairy on their under 

 side: the peduncles have some small spines: the segments of the 

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

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

 and have a musky scent. 



The While Provence Rose, which differs only in the colour 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 July to August. 



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 Double Velvet Rose, which, according to Park- 

 inson, has tire 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 \vilh two rows of petals, the outer 

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

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

 less scent than the ordinary Red Rose. 



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

 than a foot or eighteen inches in height. 



