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880 



open are very fine. It appears in the older French cata- 

 logues under the name of the Double Pimprenelle Rose, and 

 has been recently figured and described in R edoute"s Roses,* 

 as Hosier Pimprenelle Mane a flairs doubles ; where the credit 

 of its origin is given to M. Descemet ; and it is said to be 

 now usually called in the French nurseries, the Rosier pompon 

 blanc. 



The Large Double White. The peduncles are long and 

 thin, the germen campanulate, and the sepals triangular ; 

 the bud is thick and white ; the flower is large and quite 

 double, with a finer scent than usual. The plant grows very 

 strong, so that the leaves on the surculi have six pair of 

 foliola, the lower of which do not grow opposite. I observed 

 it in 1819, in Mr. Lee's nursery at Hammersmith, where it 

 flowered for the first time, having been imported from 

 France. 



Whitley's Double White. The peduncles are moderately 

 long, thick, and covered with strong setae ; the germen is 

 very much flattened ; the sepals are triangular, short, and 

 broad ; the bud is large, and greenish white, with a dash of 

 dark red ; the flower is very large, opens early, is semi-dou- 

 ble, and expands freely, shewing the yellow claws of the 

 petals conspicuously ; the stamina are very apparent, and 

 the styles are thickened and enlarged. The fruits are not 

 numerous, they are large, black, and globose, but rather 

 flattened, and so much opened at the top as to shew the 

 seeds. This sort was raised from seed of the small Double 

 White, by Mr. Whitley, in his late nursery at Brompton, 

 about ten years since ; it is a very fine variety, of more 

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