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Rosa mensalis
The monethly Rose is in all the parts thereof very like unto the Damask Rose; it is said that in Italy it beareth seven moneths in the year, but I could never find or hear of any truth that it ever bore flowers in England above three, that was, in June, about the middle of August, and towards the end of September; the Roses are very like the Damask, but something more double, and not all things so sweet.

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Rosa Belgica, sive vitrea, flore rubicante [Rosa Belgica, or Vitrea, blush blooms] The blush Belgick Rose hath bigger branches and fuller of thorns than any of the former, the green leaves thicker, stiffer, and of a whitish green colour, the flowers grow many together on the ends of the branches, which are about the bigness of the ordinary Damask Rose, but very thick and double, and of a fine pleasant pale blush colour and sweet sent: this is the greatest bearer of all the Roses, and the distilled water thereof is as good as that of the Damask : some call it the white Province Rose, and some the Batavick Rose.

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The best and most esteemed are, first, of the red Roses that called Rosa mundi, the rose of the World; Vitriensis, the red Belgick Rose; the marbled Rose, the Rose without thorns, and the red Province Rose; of the Damask Roses, the crystal Rose, Mrs. Hearts Rose, the blush Belgick Rose, the monethly Rose, and the Damask Province Rose: of the yellow Roses, the scarlet Austrian Rose, and the double yellow Rose: of white Roses, the blush Rose, and the Damask Musk Rose. These are all excellent Roses, and none of them would be wanting in any good Florists Garden.

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The best and most esteemed are, first, of the red Roses that called Rosa mundi, the rose of the World; Vitriensis, the red Belgick Rose; the marbled Rose, the Rose without thorns, and the red Province Rose; of the Damask Roses, the crystal Rose, Mrs. Hearts Rose, the blush Belgick Rose, the monethly Rose, and the Damask Province Rose: of the yellow Roses, the scarlet Austrian Rose, and the double yellow Rose: of white Roses, the blush Rose, and the Damask Musk Rose. These are all excellent Roses, and none of them would be wanting in any good Florists Garden.

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Rosa Crystallina. The Crystall Rose is in all parts thereof like unto the last [York and Lancaster], the onely difference is in the marking of the flowers, which in this are much fairer and better than in those of the other, being usually striped, spotted, and marked with pale white upon the Damask Rose colour, throughout every leaf thereof, not differing in sent or other respects from the two former.

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The best and most esteemed are, first, of the red Roses that called Rosa mundi, the rose of the World; Vitriensis, the red Belgick Rose; the marbled Rose, the Rose without thorns, and the red Province Rose; of the Damask Roses, the crystal Rose, Mrs. Hearts Rose, the blush Belgick Rose, the monethly Rose, and the Damask Province Rose: of the yellow Roses, the scarlet Austrian Rose, and the double yellow Rose: of white Roses, the blush Rose, and the Damask Musk Rose. These are all excellent Roses, and none of them would be wanting in any good Florists Garden.

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Rosa alba vulgaris. The common white Rose is so well known unto all persons, that it needeth no description; there are two sorts of ordinary white Roses, the one much doubler and fairer than the other, the best kind beareth fine double pure white Roses, and setteth off others very well, so that although it be common, yet we may afford room for one bush among the rest to increase the number of varieties.

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The best and most esteemed are, first, of the red Roses that called Rosa mundi, the rose of the World; Vitriensis, the red Belgick Rose; the marbled Rose, the Rose without thorns, and the red Province Rose; of the Damask Roses, the crystal Rose, Mrs. Hearts Rose, the blush Belgick Rose, the monethly Rose, and the Damask Province Rose: of the yellow Roses, the scarlet Austrian Rose, and the double yellow Rose: of white Roses, the blush Rose, and the Damask Musk Rose. These are all excellent Roses, and none of them would be wanting in any good Florists Garden.

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Rosa Cinnamomia.
The Cinnamon Rose, as every one knoweth, (it being as common as the first ordinary red Rose) riseth up with tall red shoots, bearing in May many small double Roses, of a pale red colour and faint sent, a little like unto that of Cinnamon , from whence it took the name.

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Rosa Eglenteria flore duplici. The double Eglentine onely differeth from the common single wilde kind, in that the flowers of this are double, composed of two, and sometimes three rows of leaves, of a pretty reddish colour, the scent both of the green leaves and flowers is the same with the wilde kind.