Rose with roundish seed-buds, and peduncles slightly hispid and
smooth: flowers small, flesh-coloured, and ever-blooming: leaves
smooth, and petioles prickly: leaflets oblong, pointed, with finely
serrated edges, and smooth: stem green, with red thorns on the
lower part.
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This delicate little Rose was raised from seed of the Rosa Indica by Mr.
Colville, and can only be regarded as a variety of that favourite
species: but every material variation of a Rose that is in continual
bloom, will most probably be considered equally as interesting, as the
more specific distinction of any other whose beauty is lost to us above
half the year. The very short time this variety has been in cultivation
with us, precludes at present the possibility of ascertaining with
accuracy the latitude of its growth: as yet we have not seen any plant
above twice the size our figure represents, and never with larger
flowers; but frequently in very small plants the blossoms have scarcely
been an inch in diameter.
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ROSA Provincialis; _Var. flore pleno_.
_Province Rose; Double-flowered Variety._