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white. Moss Roses exhibit all shades of colour from pure white 
to deep crimson: Sage-leaved Moss Rose, medium, double, 
rose ; Shiniig-leaved Moss Rose, niedium, full, delicate rose ; 
Blanche or White, medium, double, white ; Carnée, large, full, 
flesh-coloured ; cristata (fig. 85), large, full, rose, with the 
cealyx-lobes mossy; Mousseuse de Metz, medium, full, deep 
rose; Mousseuse @Orléans, medium, full, bright purple ; 
Punuchée double, medium, full, white or flesh, often striped ; 
Perpétuelle Mauget, medium, full, rose, very delicate ; Zoé (fig. 
86), medium, full, rose, very mossy. There are besides some 
Moss Roses with a longer flowering season, and thus called 
Fig. 85, Crested Moss Rose. (} nat. size.) Fig. 86. Moss Rose, Zoé. (4 nat. size.) 
perpetual. Madame Ory and Salét are referred to this 
category. 
R. Gallica, the French or Provins Rose, and R. Provincidlis 
(of some authors), the Provence Rose, are merely races of 
R. centifolia, from which they are with difficulty distinguished. 
Indeed, it seems probable that they are derived from crosses 
between this species and another, the differences being too 
slender to warrant any other assumption. The Provins Rose 
differs but slightly from the typical Centifolia, and chiefly 
in having larger clusters of flowers, which are erect instead of 
drooping. An immense number of varieties of all shades, from 
