ROSA Provincialis; Var. flore pleno. Province Rose; Double-flowered Variety.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Rosa geriminibus subglobosis, pedunculisque hispidis et glandulosis: floribus saturate carneis, odoratissimis: foliolis ovatis, acutis, serratis, et subtus villosis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Rose with nearly round seed-buds, and peduncles hispid and glandular: flowers of a deep flesh-colour, and very sweet-scented: leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, sawed, and villose beneath.
This Rose is one of the most abundant, and, from being extremely common, is perhaps best known, but the least valued. Yet, if fragrance and beauty were instead of scarcity to fix a price, very few would be deserving of a higher sum.
We have sometimes seen this fine Rose, in well cultivated luxuriant plants, acquire the height of nearly fifteen feet, adorning the front of a house in a most elegant manner during the summer months.
