UO'SA CENTIFO'LIA. 
var pomponia 
Mossy ROSE DE MEAUX. 
Claxs. 
ICOSANURIA. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
rosacea;. 
Garden 
Heiglit. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
variety. 
2 feet. 
June, July. 
Shrub. 
in 1820 
No. 1041. 
A colour took a name in an ancient language, 
and from that name comes our word Rose, with 
others of similar form and import in different 
modem languages. 
Centifolia is a species of Rose, with a multitude of 
varieties, differing much in their common appear- 
ance, hut still being identical in botanical descrip- 
tion. The Cabbage Rose, Moss Rose, dwarf Pro- 
vins and others, varying more or less from the 
original, are legitimately centifolia, or hundred- 
leaved Roses. 
The little Pompone, or Rose de Meaux, has both 
a plain and mossed variety; and scarcely can it be 
said that any excels in beauty the one we have 
here figured. 
In some situations this Rose seems to pine for 
a change, and grow less by degrees ; but we have 
proved this to arise chiefly from deficiency of sti 
mulants. Planted in light soil, freely mixed with' 
manure, from an old hotbed, and annually treated 
A\-ith a top-dressing of guano, as a new-year’s day 
repast, we find it luxuriate, and well repay these 
trifling but indispensable attentions. 
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