ROSE, with globose seed-buds, slightly glandular; peduncles
hispidly glandular, flowers crowded, and of a pale flesh-colour,
leaflets are ovate, and pointed; the stem and petioles prickly.
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This fine pale variety of the Belgic Rose is much esteemed. Its flowers
are in succession abundant, but rarely more than two are in perfection
at one time. A considerable degree of sameness certainly pervades the
Dutch species, to which a judicious curtailment will be very
serviceable, by excluding those very trivial florescent varieties from a
figurative description; by which abbreviation, a much greater degree of
interest will be attached to those, that actually possess a character
sufficiently distinct, to require a separate figure, and at the same
time it will get rid of an heterogeneous mass of superlative phrases
made use of occasionally by way of discrimination. The Author will
nevertheless give as satisfactory a reason as possible for the apparent
expulsion of any of this attractive genus.
Our figure was made from a fine plant in the nursery of Messrs.
Colville, King’s Road, in the month of July, from which period till
September it is in constant bloom.
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ROSA menstrua, _Var. flore racemoso_.
_Monthly Rose, Cluster-flowered Variety._