ROSE, with roundish seed-buds, slightly glandular, peduncles
hispidly glandular, often blooming, clustered, and of a bright red
purple; leaflets are ovate, and villous beneath; the prickles of
the branches are scattered and straight.
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This very desirable Rose was introduced from France under the title of
La Rose de quatre Saisons, and which we conceive to be an appropriate
term, as it refers with some degree of accuracy to the frequency of its
flowering. For although it is not in flower all the year, yet it is
found blooming in every season; a circumstance of rare occurrence, and
(the Chinese or Indian Rose excepted) only to be found in the species
called the Monthly Rose, from which analogy alone, the Rose of the four
Seasons has been by many supposed to be only the Clustered-flowered
Monthly under a new name; but to this it has not the slightest affinity
except in its foliage, being in every other respect most particularly
distinct. It is also a scarcer rose, and by no means so well known as it
deserves to be.
The figure was taken from a fine plant in the nursery of Messrs.
Loddiges, Hackney.
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ROSA Provincialis, _blanda_.
_Blush Province Rose._