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Flavaplena. ..recently in Vienna Austria a noble Matron wrote to me that she herself hoped and others also expected seeing finally, a paper garden from Constantinople, decorated with various genera of plants, delicately cut & skilfully constructed & each coloured so elegantly to great admiration & delight of the spectators seeing it: among them a full yellow rose & equally rare & elegant plants.

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Centifolia Batavica I...[Clusius explains that he received two rose plants in 1589 from Ioanne ab Hoghelande (Johan van Hogheland). One of these bloomed in 1591 with large, very double, very fragrant blooms. This rose Clusius named 'Centifolia Batavica'. In 1592 he received a further plant from Hogheland, which had similar, but somewhat smaller blooms ('Centifolia Batavica II')]
...Coming to the rose named Batavos Centifolias by the Batavians [Dutch], I will stick what the earlier mentioned authors write. These write that the Centifolia is not fragrant and has few petals. But to report of the development in Holland, only has to refer to Ioanne ab Hoghelande (who had his two plants sent to me at the beginning of the year 1589, which prevailed when I thought them tampered with except one with a root fragment) as large as Praenestinas [gallicas] and almost as fragrant as I understood: but at Frankfurt on the Main attracted the attention of the Belgian brothers Balthasar & Carolus Hoyke in Germany; following the disregard there, a plant was born in the year 91 from an abject fragment. It brought about forty blooms, yet not all the same size, but some counted hundred and twenty petals, large outside, small inside, taking the place of the stamens & reflexing on the calyx, a discernible fragrance of Praenestina, approaching white somewhat, not dissimilar to the colour of Praenestina.

Centifolia Batavica alba. Also of that one plant bears white blooms, Hogheland mentioning the same, of medium size, between this and the following, larger than the white called Provincialis, and better and larger than Praenestinas.

Centif Batavica II But of the rare Centifolia genus discovered in Holland, recently wrote to me Hogheland himself, considerably less than the one before, that is, between it and the common Praenestina in size, otherwise colour, fragrance, form agreeing: which really is the same plant from 1592, detected the following year.

Praenestinas, commonly called Provinciales, greatly similar to the former, grow not much less higher: the only difference is , about forty more petals, a bit more and deeper uniform pink, the center occupied by many yellow stamens, [alabastroque] very rough & short, called commonly therefore Tulpel roose: fragrance less sweet & near to the albas. This kind of white blooms were found when the Dutch were sowing the abovementioned Centifolia albas.

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Praenestina alba There are people who affirm they have found white-coloured Praestinas [R. provincialis]: I certainly have not yet seen it and depend strongly on that which Wilhelm Osterrat, unparalled citizen of Frankfurt, grows and develop in his garden, much lighter and almost whitish Praenestinas, as large and full, in which middle petals are seen partly whitish, partly purplish, or similar colours splattered. In the year 1593 I got a bllom out of the plant Hogheland sent me.

Centifolia Batavica alba. Also of that one plant bears white blooms, Hogheland mentioning the same, of medium size, between this and the following, larger than the white named Provincialis, and better and larger than Praenestinas.

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Rosa sine spinis. Many stalks growing from root to reach sometimes man-high if planted in a fertile & shadowy site: really tall but less than my size & one to six cubit long, smooth / without prickles, green, branched, winged leaves, having three or five along the rib (which is slightly rough), always two opposing each other, the terminal impair quite large, dark green glossy above, whitish below: blooms on the terminal branches, having oblong hirsute peduncles, unchanging number of multiple petals, larger than Praenestina [gallica], a medium colour between these and red, agreeable fragrance, short fat fruit, circularly winged, reddish when mature, uneven seeds, & the honest Theophrastus noted.....as every rose, contained in down: hard roots, mostly woody, and equally propagating with laterally under soil.
I recognize accepting it from Dr. Johannes Schröter senior, Primas of the University of Jena in Thuringia, doctor to the illustrious Duke of Saxony, Landgraf of Thuringia & Prince of Coburg and Weimar, who obtained it from the mother of the Prince of the Princes of Weimar and courteously sent it to me in Vienna in 1576. Blooms but in June.
variety of the same: I saw it many years later in the gardens of patricians of Frankfurt and Munich. Do not want miss confirming white blooms.

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Rosa sine spinis altera. Another variety discovered with not very dissimilar branches in Vienna Austria before my arrival at that city in a garden with small infrequent blooms of constant structured petals, the colour of wine dregs.

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Rosa versicolor. To the same family [Gallica] belonging elegant rose, which the distinguished Ioannes Resteau, citizen of Cologne, last autumn created: one clearly sees in his garden a rose of similar forme and size of Praestina [Gallica], which is divided into a a partly white petal retaining rest of red, or to that extent partly white, or thus attractively mixing white and red. The same offspring next October sent to me, but not yet flowered as in Frankfurt.