NOTES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE MOSS-ROSE, 
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" Mr. Greenwood sent the old lady at the Mill a superb silver Tankard, 
etc., to the amount of £60." 
Darwin (1893), referring to Shailer's version above, states : " Many 
other instances could be added of Roses varying by buds. The White 
Provence Rose apparently originated in this way," with which we 
agree. The statement that Greenwood paid a guinea for one flower 
and three workable buds distinctly suggests that only one small shoot 
of this new White Rose was available at the time, and that it was 
a bud-variation growing on a Common Pink Cabbage Rose as Rivers 
suggests. The " stock " that Greenwood bought for five guineas 
in the autumn was no doubt the original plant from which he cut 
the sport (cf. Andrews' account), because from his two budded plants 
and the old " stock " plant Shailer would, with ordinary good fortune, 
get his 1,200 plants in the three years stated. 
Origin of the Rose de Meaux. 
The Rose de Meaux is a miniature Cabbage- Rose which differs 
from the Old Cabbage-Rose only in the smaller size of all its parts. 
There is a good coloured drawing of this Rose in Redoute (1817) 
under the name of Rosa Pomponia or Rosier Pompon. This Rose 
is an old inhabitant of French gardens, but its precise origin is not 
known. Miss Willmott (1912) suggests with good reason that it 
may have come from the garden of Domenique Seguier, Bishop of 
Meaux (1637), wno was a great cultivator of Roses in his day. In 
any case, wherever it arose, there can be little doubt that it 
originated from the Old Cabbage-Rose and probably as a bud- 
variation. 
Aiton (1789) mentions two ' Rose de Meaux ' as varieties of R. 
provincialis Mill. (i.e. R. centifolia L.), viz. ' the Great Dwarf 
Rose,' which is no doubt the Spong Rose (R. provincialis hybrida) of 
Andrews (1805), a half-dwarf ; and the ' Small Dwarf Rose,' which 
is clearly the ' Rose de Meaux.' Both these forms are figured by 
Miss Lawrance (1799) under tt. 31 and 50 respectively. 
During a period of more than 2,000 years, only three Moss-Roses 
have^been recorded that were not derived from Moss-Roses. Two of 
the three are definitely recorded as bud-variations of Cabbage-Roses, 
viz. Moss de Meaux (1801) in England and Unique Moss (1843) in 
France. The third is the Old Moss-Rose whose origin is in question. 
Each of the two is identical with the particular form which produced 
it, except in the ' Moss ' character, which is additional. Further, 
the ' Moss ' character is apparently identical in the three Moss- 
Roses. None has been recorded as a seed-variation and all are 
sterile, like the forms which produced them. 
Further, on at least seven occasions between 1805 and 1873 the 
Old Moss-Rose has reproduced the Old Cabbage-Rose by bud- variation 
or ' bud-reversion ' (Andrews, 1805; Hare, 1818 ; Lindley, 1820; 
Shailer, 1822 ; Piper, 1842 ; Jumain, 1873 ; Darwin, 1893). 
