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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM, 



PART III. 



other sorts. Among the names of the varieties classed under this head 

 are, the monthly blush ; the blush damask ; the red and white damask ; 

 the red and white monthly; the incomparable ; the perpetual, commonly 

 called Lee's perpetual, and also the crimson perpetual, and the rose du 

 roi; and, perhaps, the handsomest variety of the species, the quatre 

 saisons, of which there are six or eight subvarieties ; the royal ; and the 

 York and Lancaster. 



a 36. R. CENTIFO V LIA Lin. The hundred-petaled, Provence, or Cabbage, Rose. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 704. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 571. 



Synonymes, R. provincials Mill. Diet., No. 18. ; R. polyanthos Rossig. Ros., t. 35. ; R. caryoph^llea 



Poir. Suppl., 6. p. 276. ; R. unguiculata Desf. Cat., 175. ; R. v&rians Pohl Bohcm., 2. p. 171. 

 Engravings. Rossig. Ros., t. 1. ; Red. Ros., 1. p. 25. t. 1., p. 37. t. 7., p. 77. t. 2G.,p. 79. t. 27., p. 111. 



t. 40. ; and our fig. 491., of the double-flowered variety. 



Spec. Char., Sfc f Prickles unequal, larger ones 

 falcate. Leaflets ciliated with glands. Flowers 

 drooping. Calyxes clammy. Fruit oblong. 

 (Don's Mill.,ii. p. 571.) Native of Eastern 

 Caucasus, in groves. Flowers white or red ; 

 single, but most commonly double. This" 

 species is distinguished from R. damascena by 

 the sepals not being reflexed, and the flowers 

 having their petals curved inwards, so as, in 

 the double state, to give the flower the ap- 

 pearance of the heart of a cabbage ; whence the 

 name of the cabbage rose. Its fruit is either 

 oblong or roundish, but never elongated. From 

 .R.gallica it is distinguished by the flowers being 

 drooping, and by the larger size of the prickles, 

 with a more robust habit. A shrub, growing 

 from 3 ft. to 6 ft. high, and flowering in June 

 and July. 



Varieties. Above 100 varieties are assigned to this species, which are classed 

 in three divisions : 



* R. c. 1 provincidlis Mill.; the Provence, or Cabbage, Roses ; among 



which are the royal and cabbage blush; the carmine ; the cluster ; the 



Duchesse d' Angouleme, a very handsome white rose ; the Provence, 



of which there are upwards of twenty subvarieties ; the prolific ; 



the striped nosegay ; and the Versailles. 

 ft R. c. 2 muscdsa Mill., the Mos.s Roses; 



among which are the common single {Jig. 



492.), the common double, the blush, the 



dark, the striped, the white, and the crested 



moss ; the last a variety recently obtained 



from France, by Mr. Curtis of the Glazen- 



wood Nursery. (See Sot. Mag., t. 3475.; 



and Gard. Mag., vol. xii. p. 182.) 

 it R. c. 3 pomponia Dec., the Pompone Roses ; 



among which are the well-known rose de 



Meaux, an old inhabitant of the gardens ; 



the mossy de Meaux, the dwarf, and small 



Provence; the rose de Rheims; and the 



common and proliferous pompone. 

 & R. c. 4 bipinnata Red. Ros., ii. p. 4., which has bipinnate leaves. 



& 37. R. GA'LLICA L. The French Rose. 



Identification. Lin Sp., 704. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 603. 



Synonymes. R. centifblia Mill. Diet., No. 41. ; R. sylvatica Gater. Mont., p. 94. ; R. rQbra Lam. Fl. 



Fr., 3. p. 130. ; R. holosericea Rossig. Ros., t. 18. ; R. belgica Brot. FL Lus., 1. p. 338. ; R. blanda 



Brot., 1. c. : Rose de Provins, Fr. : Essig Rose, Ger. 

 Engravings. Mill., fig. t. 221. f. 2. ; Rossig. Ros., t. 17. 22. 25., fig. 6. 26. 28. 31. 36. 38. 39. ; Red. 



Ko., 1. t. 25. 52., 2. 7, 8. 10. ; and our fig. 493., whicli is of the variety called the Bishop Hose. 



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