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... produce plain - coloured flowers , while the remainder of the plant has striped flowers : it is then said " to sport . " but , a flowering branch of the Unique having produced B 3 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN . 5.
... produce plain - coloured flowers , while the remainder of the plant has striped flowers : it is then said " to sport . " but , a flowering branch of the Unique having produced B 3 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN . 5.
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... producing flowers beautifully striped , in others entirely red , and in the soil of this nursery most frequently pure ... produce flowers approach- ing to dark crimson , a rare colour among Provence Roses . Since the publication of the ...
... producing flowers beautifully striped , in others entirely red , and in the soil of this nursery most frequently pure ... produce flowers approach- ing to dark crimson , a rare colour among Provence Roses . Since the publication of the ...
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... produce seed , but this variety is a hybrid , and , like many other hybrid roses , it does not bear seed so freely as those that are pure ; but I shall have occasion to notice many exceptions to this , in giving instructions for raising ...
... produce seed , but this variety is a hybrid , and , like many other hybrid roses , it does not bear seed so freely as those that are pure ; but I shall have occasion to notice many exceptions to this , in giving instructions for raising ...
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... produced by the seed of the Moss Rose do not always show moss : perhaps not more than two plants out of three will ... produces shoots entirely destitute of moss . In the summer of 1836 I also observed a luxuriant branch of the Crimson ...
... produced by the seed of the Moss Rose do not always show moss : perhaps not more than two plants out of three will ... produces shoots entirely destitute of moss . In the summer of 1836 I also observed a luxuriant branch of the Crimson ...
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... produced from seed , or more probably from a sporting branch , the Double Moss Rose , that is , a double Cabbage or Provence Rose , covered with that glandular excrescence which we term moss ; this branch or plant was propagated , and ...
... produced from seed , or more probably from a sporting branch , the Double Moss Rose , that is , a double Cabbage or Provence Rose , covered with that glandular excrescence which we term moss ; this branch or plant was propagated , and ...
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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.