Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds. Peduncles and petioles hispid.
Flowers scarlet-coloured; prickles of the branches scattered and
straight. Leaflets ovate, of a yellowish green, villose beneath,
with glandular serratures. Branches spreading, of a whitish green.
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This Rose is perfectly well known under the appellation of the Portland
Rose; a title it is said to have received in compliment to the late
Duchess of Portland, a great admirer of this charming tribe of plants,
and in whose collection at Bulstrode they were cultivated in great
luxuriance. It is a fine scarlet Rose, of a most brilliant appearance,
far above comparison with any effort of art. It appears to have the
compound character of three different plants: in growth and flower, like
the _Gallica officinalis_; in foliage, like the Province; with seed-buds
and peduncles more resembling the Damask species. Yet with all these
affinities it seems to possess a perfectly distinct character, and may
be easily distinguished from most other Roses by the fiery colour of its
flowers: the stalks are of a whiter green, and the foliage of a yellower
green, than Roses in general. It continues in successive bloom from the
middle of summer till late in autumn.
Our figure was made from a plant in the nursery of Messrs. Colville.
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ROSA Pennsylvanica; _Var. flore pleno_.
_Pennsylvanian Rose; Double-flowered Variety._