Part 17

Rose with round seed-buds, smooth, and of a dark purple colour: flowers with crowded petals: footstalks smooth, and furnished at the base with a large bract or floral leaf: leaves of a deep green, and wrinkled, glaucous on the under side: footstalks prickly: stem prickly, with scattered spines in pairs.

Native of the South of Europe.

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The odour of Cinnamon, which this early blooming Rose is supposed to possess, has furnished it with a specific title by which it is well known. It is a very old species, and said to have been introduced from the south of Europe as long ago as the year 1569. Like all those roses whose flowers are very double, the petals are subject to be disorganised by the prevalence of easterly winds, to which its early bloom is liable. It is only increased by layers, as the abundance of the petals absorbing all the stamina precludes the fruit’s increase.

ROSA Provincialis regalis.

Royal or Queen’s Province Rose.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Rosa germinibus sub-globosis: pedunculis et petiolis hispidè glandulosis: foliis pinnatis: foliolis ovatis, acutis, subtùs villosis: floribus semi-duplicibus, incarnatis, magnis.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Rose with nearly round seed-buds: peduncles and petioles hispidly glandular: leaves winged: leaflets ovate, pointed, and villose beneath: flowers semi-double, flesh-coloured, and large.

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This fine semi-double Rose is known amongst cultivators by the appellation of Royal or Queen’s Province, and considered as an excellent forcing Rose, and much esteemed by those nurserymen who with the assistance of the hot-stove bring flowers into a premature state of inflorescence. Like all the other Province species, its natural period of blooming is during the months of June and July.

ROSA sempervirens.

Evergreen Rose.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Rosa germinibus ovatis: calycibus pedunculisque hispidis: petiolis aculeatis: caule spinis curvatis rubris armato: floribus in sparsis umbellis, bracteis lanceolatis, reflexis: corollis albis.

Habitat in Germaniâ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds: empalements and peduncles hispid: petioles prickly: stem armed with crooked red spines: flowers grow in scattered umbels, with lance-shaped, reflexed floral leaves: blossoms white.

Native of Germany.

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As a training Rose, this species is particularly estimable from the rapidity of its growth. It also retains its leaves longer than most roses, but is certainly, strictly speaking, not an evergreen. It so much resembles the Rosa arvensis, that at first sight they might easily be taken one for the other. It is a native of Germany, and was introduced about the year 1629. Our drawing was made from a fine plant in the collection of Isaac Swainson, esq. at Twickenham.

ROSA Eglanteria Americana.

American Eglantine Rose.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Rosa germinibus sub-globosis, hispidis: pedunculis et petiolis hispidè glandulosis: caule fruticoso, spinis sparsis, parvis, rectis armato: ramis numerosis: floribus ramos singulariter terminantibus: corollis semi-duplicibus, saturatè incarnatis: foliis glabris, odoratis: foliolis ovatis.

Habitat in Americâ Boreali.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.