ROSE, with many folds, and nearly round seed-buds; the peduncles
and petioles are hispid and glandular; the prickles of the branches
are scattered, straight, and slightly reflexed; leaflets
egg-shaped, villous beneath, with glandular margins.
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This variety of the Common Province is the most fragrant of all the
Roses, and therefore particularly desirable; for, although it cannot be
ranked among the rare, it is nevertheless one of the most beautiful. Its
sweetness, joined to the abundance of its blossoms, has rendered it an
object of culture, for the purpose of distillation; as it yields a much
greater quantity of scented water than any other rose. It is generally
denominated the Cabbage Province, from the extreme complexity of its
petals, which sometimes adhere so closely together, as to prevent
entirely their expansion without bursting:--a circumstance that
frequently occurs in the vegetable from which its specific distinction
is derived, and which we regard to be unequivocally good, as we should
every similitude of equally easy reference. By the closeness and
superabundance of its petals only, is it distinguished from the Common
Province, of which it is certainly an interesting variety.
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ROSA moschata.
_Musk Rose._