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A Manual Of Gardening For Bengal And Upper India
(1874) Page(s) 480. Abricoté.- Bears moderate-sized flowers with apricot-coloured centre.
(1874) Page(s) 476. Acidalie.—A beautiful blush Rose; bears a strong resemblance to Mrs. Bosanquet, but has petals more uneven, with a deeper tinge on their edges. Not a very thriving plant in this country.
(1864) Page(s) 423. Bourbon Roses. 6. Acidalie (the true name, I have no doubt, of the Rose called in the garden of the Agri-Horticultural Society Maiden's Blush—the Maiden's Blush belonging to the group of Rosa alba—and known by native dealers as Khura-Peel).—A plant of stout stems, but not large growth; flowers large, white, the petals overlapping with beautiful regularity, as in a Camellia; perfect in form, and one of the loveliest Roses we have; the plant does not bear much cutting; not very readily propagated; but cuttings put down in November, in a shady place, will some of them strike.
(1874) Page(s) 478. Archduke Charles (known by the name of Rosa discolor in the Garden of the Agri-Horticultural Society) - Do-rungee. - A plant of stout habit; flowers noble, of the largest size, very double, petals very beautifully overlapping almost white on first opening, turning to a dark dull-crimson a day or two afterwards.
(1864) Page(s) 425. Tea-Scented. 1. Booth's Rose.—A local name in Calcutta, supposed by some to be Goubault, but more probably Bougère; as delightful a Rose as we either have, or could have, in the country; of strong vigorous growth, producing large exceedingly double deep blush flowers of delicious fragrance: easily propagated by cuttings, and very common in the Calcutta gardens.
(1874) Page(s) 480. Tea Roses...La Boule d'Or.- Flowers small, of a beautiful golden colour; the plant loves a dry soil
(1874) Page(s) 469. Bussora or Persian Rose.- The Bussora [Basrah] Rose is distinguished for the rich perfume of its flowers, is common all over India, and in some places cultivated extensively for the manufacture of atar. There are two varieties, the red and the white, only partially double, very fugitive, blosssoming for one brief season in March. The stems are profusely covered with small fine spines, and the plant has rather a shabby, unsightly appearance. The usual practice is to head down all the stems in November, remove the earth, so that the roots be laid bare for a week or two, and then fill in the earth again with a liberal supply of old cow-manure. The Bussora appears to be the form of R. Damascena, such as we might almost expect to find it in its wild, uncultivated state. In this state, seemingly, it is alone capable of existing in India. For I know of no other form of the Damask Rose that has been established in India - not one certainly of the sweet and completely double varieties that in past years were so much the ornament oif English gardens, as indeed of some few they even now are.
(1874) Page(s) 476. Tea-Scented Noisette 4. (Canina Borbonica.)—One of the most beautiful, though one of the commonest and oldest Roses in Calcutta; produces in greatest profusion large, handsome, pendulous, very double, though not well-formed, creamy-white flowers, with apricot centre, relieved most agreeably by the very peculiar and distinct yellow-green of the foliage; benefited by liberal pruning; considered difficult to propagate by cuttings. What the proper name of this Rose is I am at a loss to say. I conceived it might be Triomphe de Bolwyller. Canina Borbonica (misprinted evidently for Chinensis Borboniana) was the name originally bestowed by Redoute on Rose Edouard. How in Calcutta the name became transferred to this Rose it is now impossible to tell.
(1864) Page(s) 422. Bourbon Roses. 3. Canina Borbonica (dissimilar in character to all other Roses of this group, to which, though placed here, it can hardly belong).—One of the most beautiful, though one of the commonest and oldest, Roses in Calcutta; produces large, handsome, pendulous, very double, though not well-formed, creamy-white flowers, with apricot centre, in greatest profusion, relieved most agreeably by the very peculiar and distinct yellow-green of the foliage; benefitted by liberal pruning; considered difficult to propagate by cuttings.
(1874) Page(s) 480. Tea Roses. Comte de Paris.- Bears large flesh-coloured flowers.
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