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it is therefore very probable that it was called the 

 Provence Eose from growing more abundantly in 

 that province : it has now, however, quite a dif- 

 ferent name incFrance, for it is called the ' Eose 

 a Cent Feuilles,' from the botanical name, Eosa 

 centifolia, or Hundred-leaved Eose. I must here 

 confess that, when I was a young rose-fancier, 

 this name often misled me, as I was very apt to 

 think that it referred to the Scotch and other 

 small and thickly-leaved roses, not for a moment 

 supposing that the term was applied to the petals 

 or flower-leaves. 



Hybrid Eoses, between this and Eosa gallica, 

 are called Provence Eoses by the French amateurs 

 of the present day. Our Provence, or Cabbage, 

 Eose is exceedingly varied in the form and dis- 

 position of its petals. In the following paragraphs 

 I have confined myself to a description of those 

 only that partake largely of the character of the 

 common Cabbage, or Provence, Eose, and that are 

 worthy of cultivation ; the latter name, I find, 

 is not used by some recent writers in the ' Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle ' and elsewhere : they write 

 * Provins,' the name applied in France, as I have 

 said in another place, to the Eosa gallica, a semi- 

 double variety of which is cultivated for the pur- 

 pose of making rose-water largely in the environs 

 of Provins, a small market-town sixty-six miles 

 to the east of Paris, on the road to Nancy. By 

 early writers on gardening our rose is called Eosa 



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