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... common Cabbage Rose . This variety was at first much esteemed , and plants of it were sold at very high prices . Most probably this was not a seedling from the Old Cabbage Rose , as that is too double to bear seed in this country , but ...
... common Cabbage Rose . This variety was at first much esteemed , and plants of it were sold at very high prices . Most probably this was not a seedling from the Old Cabbage Rose , as that is too double to bear seed in this country , but ...
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... common Striped Unique , its leaves are nearly round and deeply serrated : this is not the variety mentioned as being grown in Sussex , but a French variety , which was found among others , and propagated on account of its distinct ...
... common Striped Unique , its leaves are nearly round and deeply serrated : this is not the variety mentioned as being grown in Sussex , but a French variety , which was found among others , and propagated on account of its distinct ...
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... common Provence Rose , as the Old Double Moss Rose , which was introduced to this country from Holland in 1596 , is the only one mentioned by our early writers on gardening . If it had any claims to be ranked . as a botanical species ...
... common Provence Rose , as the Old Double Moss Rose , which was introduced to this country from Holland in 1596 , is the only one mentioned by our early writers on gardening . If it had any claims to be ranked . as a botanical species ...
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... common Provence Rose is strengthened by the fact , that plants produced by the seed of the Moss Rose do not always show moss : perhaps not more than two plants out of three will be mossy , as I have often proved . Those that are not so ...
... common Provence Rose is strengthened by the fact , that plants produced by the seed of the Moss Rose do not always show moss : perhaps not more than two plants out of three will be mossy , as I have often proved . Those that are not so ...
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... common , that it is quite necessary in a col- lection . The Crimson or Damask Moss , sometimes called the Tinwell Moss , was ori- ginated in the garden of a clergyman at Tinwell in Rutlandshire ; from thence sent to Mr. Lee of ...
... common , that it is quite necessary in a col- lection . The Crimson or Damask Moss , sometimes called the Tinwell Moss , was ori- ginated in the garden of a clergyman at Tinwell in Rutlandshire ; from thence sent to Mr. Lee of ...
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Page 160 - Mrticipates (p. 87) that the day will come when all our roses, even moss-roses, will have evergreen foliage, brilliant and fragrant flowers, and the habit of blooming from June till November.