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Every Man his own Gardener
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Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie, Every Man His Own Gardener. Twentieth Edition, 1813.
p. 702
PAEONIA or Peony,
Officinal, or common, with oblong folioles,
Female peony, with leaves different lobed,
Male peony, with leaves ovate-spear lobed,
Red flowered,
White flowered,
Blush-coloured flowered,
Crimson flowered,
Double-flowered of each,
Small linear leaved, many parted or larkspur-leaved peony.
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Here is a list of roses mentioned by John Abercrombie in 'Every Man His Own Gardener', THE TWENTIETH EDITION, "Corrected and greatly enlarged, with many considerable New Additions of various Plants, Flowers, Trees, Fruits, &c, and of numerous very essential Improvements, in a more full and comprehensive manner, in every department of the work, than in any former edition". Dated 1813, printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge.
Roses:
Early cinnamon
Double yellow
Single yellow
Red monthly
White monthly
Double white
Moss Provence
Common Provence
Double velvet
Single ditto
Blush Belgick
Red ditto
Marbled
Large royal
York and Lancaster
Red damask
Blush ditto
White damask
Austrian yellow
Austrian, with flowers, having one side red and the other yellow.
Double musk
Royal virgin
Rosa Mundi, i.e. rose of the world, or striped red rose
Frankfort
Cluster-blush
Maiden blush
Virgin or thornless
Common red
Burnet-leaved
Scotch, the dwarf
Striped Scotch
Apple-bearing
Single American
Rose of Meaux
Pennsylvania
Red cluster
Burgundy rose
Briar, double red, sweet, double blush, yellow, Eglantine briar.
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Wonderful find, thank you!
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It is interesting that he mentions a striped Scottish rose, and no China roses, but plenty from North America. I bought the book from a junk shop, for no more than ₤1 or ₤2 sterling, in about 1981 when I was thirteen. I am glad the information is of interest so many years later.
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