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... Unique Provence is a genuine English rose , which , I believe , was found by Mr. Grim- wood , then of the Kensington Nursery , in some cottage - garden , growing among plants of the common Cabbage Rose . This variety was at first much ...
... Unique Provence is a genuine English rose , which , I believe , was found by Mr. Grim- wood , then of the Kensington Nursery , in some cottage - garden , growing among plants of the common Cabbage Rose . This variety was at first much ...
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Thomas Rivers. but , a flowering branch of the Unique having produced striped flowers , plants were budded from it ... Unique may be mentioned , as being very beautiful and con- stant in its variegation ; it is of less vigorous 6 THE ...
Thomas Rivers. but , a flowering branch of the Unique having produced striped flowers , plants were budded from it ... Unique may be mentioned , as being very beautiful and con- stant in its variegation ; it is of less vigorous 6 THE ...
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... 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 character ; the same ...
... 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 character ; the same ...
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... unique envelope ? The first in the catalogue is the Asepala , or Rosa muscosa asepala ; a new variety , something like the Provence Dianthæflora , curious , but of no beauty . The Blush Moss is a most beautiful variety of the colour of ...
... unique envelope ? The first in the catalogue is the Asepala , or Rosa muscosa asepala ; a new variety , something like the Provence Dianthæflora , curious , but of no beauty . The Blush Moss is a most beautiful variety of the colour of ...
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... unique and elegant appearance , totally unlike any other rose . When the flower is fully ex- panded , this peculiar beauty vanishes , and it has merely the appearance of a superior variety of the Provence Rose . It should here be men ...
... unique and elegant appearance , totally unlike any other rose . When the flower is fully ex- panded , this peculiar beauty vanishes , and it has merely the appearance of a superior variety of the Provence Rose . It should here be men ...
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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.