VARIETIES DESCRIBED. 5 



suspended from a standard ; these are of a pale 

 lilac rose-colour, distinct and beautiful. The 

 Scarlet Province is an old variety, one of those 

 misnomers thatftin flowers so often lead to dis- 

 appointment : it was probably the first Provence 

 Eose 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. Grrimwood,* then 

 of the Kensington Nursery, in some cottage- 

 garden, growing among plants of the common 

 Cabbage Kose. 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 Eose, as that is too double 

 to bear seed in this country, but what is called 

 by florists a sporting f branch or sucker. In 



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

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

 Mr. Richmond, 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. asked for a branch, but obtained the entire 

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

 journey, the following year, Mr. Grimwood 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 pre- 

 served till his death. Roses, 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 



