RO'SA GAL'LICA. 
Var. tricolor pompon. 
THREE-COLOURED FRENCH ROSE. 
Class. 
ICOS.tNDRIA. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Satural Order. 
KOSACE.®. 
Hybrid 
Height. Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introdueed 
Origin. 
2| feet, j June, July. 
Shrub. 
in 1840? 
No. 997. 
Tlie Avord Rosa lias been lately noticed. 
Such is the vaiiety of Roses included in the 
siiecies Gallica, or French Rose, that it is not 
always an easy task to identify all those which be- 
long to it; indeed many Roses — hybrid produc- 
tions of great beauty, may lay just as much claim 
to be placed in one species as another. Some au- 
thors maintain that Rosa Gallica and Rosa centi- 
foliaare but varieties, the one of the other; and the 
eye of the practical Rose grower can oftentimes dis- 
tinguish them more readily than that of the botanist 
Avitli his written character. Rosa Gallica, how- 
ever, may generally be knoAvn by its stiff upright 
flower-stalks, and by its petals and sepals being 
shoiter than those of centifolia ; whilst the edges 
of its leaves, too, are without glands, which are 
always found on centifolia. 
Linneus's Rosa centifolia, or hundred-leaved 
Rose, and Miller’s provins Rose, are synonymous ; 
but centifolia includes Miller's muscosa, or moss 
Rose ; and also Rosa j^omponia, or pompone Rose, 
sometimes called Rose de Meaux, whose princijial 
distinction is its diminutive size. An immense 
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