Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds, and hispid peduncles. Flowers
crowded, of a pale flesh colour. Leaves spreading. Leaflets broadly
egg-shaped and sharp-pointed. Stem and petioles prickly.
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There cannot be a Rose better known than this delicate species, under
the title of The Maiden’s Blush. It is considered, among the Garden
Roses, as the second in progressive routine from the wild species, but
must certainly be ranked among the first in beauty. Our figure
represents what is called the Clustered variety; an appellation we have
not adopted, as it would have compelled us to have given two other
nominal varieties; the one, whose flowers are rather smaller; the other,
with flowers less crowded. But when the latitude of growth that
appertains to this luxuriant tribe is considered, they may with
propriety be regarded as the variations of culture only.
During the months of July and August this Rose is in the greatest
perfection. We have frequently remarked the foliage of this Rose, upon
most old plants, to be of a very dark or blackish green; but, on the
younger ones, to be nearly the same in colour as the minor variety.
[Illustration]
ROSA Bella Donna; _Var. flore minore_.
_Maidens-blush Rose; Small-flowered Variety._