ROSE, with roundish seed-buds; peduncles and petioles hispid and
glandular. The prickles of the branches are scattered, straight,
and slightly bent back. The leaflets are villous beneath, with
glandulose serratures.
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The species of Rose denominated Province, a native of Spain and Italy,
is by far the most extended. The varieties are so numerous, that they
apparently comprise one third of the genus. Our present figure
represents the Single Province, a very scarce rose; and as the incipient
ground of so many beautiful varieties, we regard it as peculiarly
valuable. It is a singular circumstance, that from Spain and Italy,
where the Province is supposed to be indigenous, and thence imported to
us, we should never have heard of the Single Province, much less
received the plant; which we can in no way account for, unless the
superior beauty of the Common Province, joined to its great abundance,
may have rendered the idea of importing those with single flowers
superfluous.
Our figure was taken from the only plant we have ever seen, at the
nursery of Mr. Shailer, of Little Chelsea.
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ROSA Provincialis, _alba_.
_White Province, or Rose Unique._