123— ROSA PROVINCIALIS, var. BULLATA Hort. 
Rosa provincialis, var. bullata: a typo recedit foliolis magnis, conspicue 
bullatis. 
Rosa cent i folia, var. bullata Thory in Redoute, Roses, vol. i. p. 37, t. (1817). — 
Nouv. Duhamel. vol. vii. p. 36 (1819). 
This very curious Rose was formerly to be found in most gardens, 
and a glance through the old nurserymen’s lists shows its wide popu- 
larity. It was figured by Andrews, 1 who gives it the English name 
of “ Knobby-leaved Province Rose,” and speaks of it as a novelty 
imported from Holland in the summer of 1815, and planted in 
Colville’s nursery at Chelsea, where the drawing was made. Redoute’s 
portrait of it is one of the most successful of his beautiful plates : he 
calls it centifolia, var. bullata , giving also its popular French names 
a feuilles gauffrees , a feuilles cloquees, and a feuilles de laitue , and 
states that it was raised by Dupont. 
This Rose, with its beautiful fragrant flowers and its curiously 
rolled leaflets, which often measure four inches in length by two and 
a half in breadth, is so interesting that it should be grown in every 
garden. The bush needs staking, for the flower-heads are heavy and 
the leaflets become so large and voluminous that the weight is more 
than the supple stems can support. 
Redoute’s drawing represents all the leaves as green, but during 
the summer they turn a beautiful bronze tint, which adds another 
charm to this fine variety of Rosa provincialis. 
1 Roses , vol. i. t. 28 (1805). 
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