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SECTION III. PORTLAND ROSES. 



This variety, which has much affinity with the 

 Belgian rose, is one of the most fragrant known; and 

 much cultivated for purposes of perfumery. 



The following roses flower at various seasons of the 

 year. 



15. ^Pauline Diibreuil. 



Flowers, middle-sized, semi-double, flesh-colour. 



16. Monthly Rose. 

 Rose du Calendrier. 

 Perpetuelle Semi-double. 



Tube of calyx, (very remarkable,) pear-shaped in its 

 youth, distaff-shaped or fusiform when the corolla 

 is expanded, and oval after fecundation. 



Flowers, middle-sized, semi-double, of a light pink. 



17. Le Desespoir des Amateurs. 

 Rosa Perpetuosissima. 



This shrub, which flowered for the first time in 1832, 

 unites the specific characters of the Damask in its 

 wood and thorns, the May rose in its leaves and leaf- 

 stalks, the leaflets of the Bengal, the clusters of the 

 Noisette, the ovary of the He de Bourbon, the spots 

 on the wood and flowerstalk of the Tea rose, and the 

 fragrance of the Hundred-leaved. 



Shrub, vigorous. 



Branches, thick. 



Thorns, long, uneven, straight, or a little bent 



Leaflets, three to seven; small, oval, pointed, of a pale 



green on the upper surface, glaucous on the under. 

 Flowers, very large, full, expanding of a bright pink, 



turning to flesh-colour, fragrant. 



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