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serrate; the peduncles are set with prickly hairs; the calyxes are 

 semipinnale and hairy; the corolla is of a soft pale red, and not very 

 double, but has an agreeable odour; the heps are long and smooth. 

 It is a native of the South of France, &c. 



There are several varieties: as the Red Damask Rose, the Blush 

 Damask Rose, which differ only in the shade of colour. 



The York and Lancaster Rose, which agrees with the Damask in 

 stalk, leaf, &c., differing only in the flower being variegated with 

 white stripes. Mr. Hart's Rose has the white stripes more distinct: 

 the flowers in these being less double than in several others, are fre- 

 quently succeeded by fruit, and have ripe seeds, from which other 

 varieties may be obtained. According to Parkinson, " sometimes 

 one half of the petal is of a pale whitish colour, and the other half 

 of a paler damask than common; or one petal is white or striped with 

 white, and the other half blush or striped with blush; sometimes also 

 striped or spotted over, and at other times little or no stripes or marks, 

 and the longer it remains blown open in the sun, the paler and the 

 fewer stripes, marks or spots will be seen in it. The smell is of a 

 sweet Damask Rose scent." 



The Red Monthly Rose, the While Monthly Rose, which are so 

 called from their continuing to blow in succession during the greater 

 part of the summer; not that they blow in every month, as the name 

 jmplies. They are in every respect like the Damask Rose; unless 

 it be that tliey are more full of prickles than that. 



The Blush Belgic Rose, which rises about three feet high, with 

 prickly stalks : the leaves are composed of five or seven leaflets, 

 which are oval, hairy on their under side, and slightly serrate : the 

 peduncles and calyxes are hairy, and without prickles; the calyxes 

 are large and semipinnate; the flowers very double, of a pale flesh 

 .colour, with little scent, generally in great quantities. 



The Red Belgic Rose, which differs only in having the colour of 

 the flower a deep red. 



The Great Royal Rose, and the Imperial Blush Damask Rose. 



The sixteenth species has slender stalks which trail upon the 

 ground unless they are supported, and if trained up to a pole or the 



