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not adopted by the scientific. The colour is a 

 clear delicate pink, the wood strong, distantly 

 studded with thorns. The Unique, or White 

 Provins, is a sported branch from the old variety, 

 differing in colour, and also in the shape of the 

 flower, being weaker, having the petals more 

 crumpled, and not so cupped; the colour is pure 

 white, though it is liable to sport, for I have seen it 

 a pretty blush, and in some instances striped and 

 margined. Belgic, or Dutch Provins, is even 

 larger than the cabbage, being four to five inches 

 in diameter; colour red; buds large and very 

 splendid, and is the most common rose in the 

 country called the Cabbage Rose, from which it 

 differs very materially in the wood not having such 

 strong prickles, though of more free growth; the 

 flower also expands fully, which the cabbage 

 never does. Duchesne is a large blush, and a 

 good bloomer, with well formed flowers. Duchesse 

 a" Orleans is perhaps a little hybridized, and is a 

 very splendid variety, of a bright rosy pink colour, 

 inclining to blush towards the edge. It is a good 

 grower and free bloomer. Belle Ruineuse is a 

 beautiful light blush pink, very double, and finely 

 cupped. Cricks, or Yorkshire Provins, has very 

 much the appearance of the old Cabbage Provins, 

 though a shade darker, and opens its flowers more 

 freely. Crested Provins, frequently, though erro- 



