ROSE, with globular seed-buds; the flowers are large, and of a
marbled character; peduncles hispid; the stem and petioles are
hispidly prickly; the leaflets are nearly egg-shaped, and villous
beneath.
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This Marbled Variety of the _officinalis_, or French Red Rose, is, like
the Striped, a variety of colour only: for although all the three Roses
appear distinct from each other when in flower; yet, when out of bloom,
it is scarcely possible to distinguish the one from the other. We have
sometimes observed the foliage of this variety more undulated or waved
than the others; a trifling difference, if it is even a constant
character;--but most likely a mere casualty of growth. It is exactly of
the same bushy habit as the other two; and, like them, equally subject
to mildew in the autumn.
Our drawing was made from a fine plant, in luxuriant bloom, at the
nursery of Mr. Shailer, King’s Road, Chelsea.
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ROSA Provincialis, _semi-duplex_.
_Semi-double Province Rose._