S| The Scented Qarden §* 



faire in our Countrey, the cause whereof wee doe imagine 

 to bee the much moisture of our Countrey, and the time 

 of nowring being subject to much raine and showers.' 

 The colour of this rose is very pure. 



We still have the beautiful white Provence rose, the 



* Rose Unique ' — R. frovincialis alba. According to 

 Andrews, the introduction of this rose in 1777 was 



* entirely accidental through the medium of the late 

 Mr. Grimwood, nurseryman, who in an excursion, which 

 he usually made every summer, in passing the front 

 garden of Mr. Richmond, a baker near Needham in 

 Suffolk, there perceived the present charming plant, 

 where it had been placed by a carpenter, who found it 

 near a hedge on the contiguous premises of a Dutch 

 merchant, whose old mansion he was repairing. Mr. 

 Greenwood requesting a little cutting of it, received 

 from Mr. Richmond the whole plant ; when Mr. Green- 

 wood in return for a plant so valuable presented him with 

 an elegant silver cup with the Rose engraved upon it ; 

 and which in conversation has furnished food for many 

 a convivial hour. It is of a dwarf growth and remains in 

 flower near six weeks longer than the other Provence 

 Roses which renders it still the more estimable.' Rivers, 

 writing in 1837, says of this rose, ' The Unique Provence 

 is a genuine English rose which I believe was found by 

 Mr. Greenwood, then of the Kensington Nursery, in 

 some cottage garden. . . . 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 rose, as that is too double to bear seed in this 

 country, but what is called by florists a Sporting branch 

 or Sucker.' 



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