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Rosa provincialis, with many varieties, they make 5-6 feet tall trunks, with few prickles, peduncle and ovary, with black sticky glands, the leaflets are acuminate, deeply serrated, woolly below, the blooms are 2-3 inch wide, mildly fragrant, partly double, partly single in clusters.
Excellent varities known are those with large, double bright red [pink] blooms, where a bud emerges from the heart, the pyramidally formed, with double white, rose-pink shaded blooms, then Agathe de Francfort with rose-pink very full blooms, also the small with dark red blooms.

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Rosa de Nanci, makes a 3-4 feet tall bush, with small soft but perfect foliage, small very double flesh-coloured blooms.

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Rosa gallica...an excellent beautiful variety is holoserica, which is somewhat more than semi-double, has yellow stamens, dark purple petals, which shimmer towards blue-violet, with a pleasant fragrance

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Rosa gallica...under this [group] are the most beautiful varieties of the Maheca roses, with their crimson-red, dark purple shaded glossy roses, then there are fully or semi-double [roses], which are all crimson-red, dark purple shaded, one also has full and semi-double smaller varieties, among which again the coloured ones excel...

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Rosa calendarum, the calnder rose, makes a 6-10 foot tall trunk, covered with prickles, with perfect foliaceous foliage, ovoid leaflets, somewhat acuminate, the blooms are full, medium size, of pale red colour, there is also an excellent variety with full white blooms, very floriferous, and seem sto belong to the Centifolia-Roses.

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Rosa cinnamomea or majalis, with reddish brown trunks and branches, pretty dark green foliage, consisting of 7 cuneiform leaflets, saw-tooth serrated, with small double red blooms, a pleasant cinnamon fragrance, beautiful container plant, the single form grows wild.

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Rosa lutea, makes a trunk of 5-12 feet, with many brown prickles, large bush, delicate evergreen foliage, medium size yellow non-fragrant roses. There are a few varieties of this, with blackish yellow blooms, orange-coloured, fire-red and yellow striped blooms, all without fragrance and single.

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Rosa parviflora, makes a 2 feet tall bush, with beautiful green perfect foliage, an inch wide soft red [pink] roses, there are semi-double and double varieties thereof.

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Rosa pensylvanica, the Pensylvanian Rose, which is also known as the Carolina rose in its double variety, with reverse hooked prickles, acuminate leaflets whitish below, small inch wide red [pink] roses, which are not fully double.

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Rosa pimpinellifolia, this beautiful variety makes 3-4 foot high bushes with straight prickles, which are somewhat ash-gray, small single roses, of which there are many varieties, as the double white, the double flesh-coloured, the double yellow, then the single dark red, pale red, white etc. Especially beautiful is the mottled with double blooms.