Rose with round seed-buds, smooth, and of a dark purple colour:
flowers with crowded petals: footstalks smooth, and furnished at
the base with a large bract or floral leaf: leaves of a deep green,
and wrinkled, glaucous on the under side: footstalks prickly: stem
prickly, with scattered spines in pairs.
Native of the South of Europe.
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The odour of Cinnamon, which this early blooming Rose is supposed to
possess, has furnished it with a specific title by which it is well
known. It is a very old species, and said to have been introduced from
the south of Europe as long ago as the year 1569. Like all those roses
whose flowers are very double, the petals are subject to be disorganised
by the prevalence of easterly winds, to which its early bloom is liable.
It is only increased by layers, as the abundance of the petals absorbing
all the stamina precludes the fruit’s increase.
[Illustration]
ROSA Provincialis regalis.
_Royal or Queen’s Province Rose._