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rally widely opened flowers like the rose in 
architecture. The striped and marbled roses 
belong to this division. These roses have 
scarcely any fragrance; but they have gene¬ 
rally showy flowers, and they are very hardy. 
The druggists use them for making conserve 
of roses ; and for this purpose they are grown 
in great quantities near the little town of 
Provins in France, whence their name, which 
is often confounded with that of the Pro¬ 
vence Roses from the south of France. The 
white roses are hardy, and bloom abundantly 
with very little care. The Scotch roses are 
also remarkable for their hardiness, for their 
blooming generally a fortnight earlier than 
any others, and for their ripening abundance 
of seed, from which new varieties may con¬ 
tinually be raised. The yellow Scotch rose 
is very beautiful. Williams’s double yellow 
sweetbriar, and the Austrian yellow or 
copper-coloured rose are also well worth cul¬ 
tivating. The latter is yellow on the outside 
of the petal and red within. This rose will 
not succeed well in a smoky atmosphere, 
but it flowers beautifully in Mrs. Marryatt’s 
flower-garden at Wimbledon, and in that of 
