(1828)  Page(s) tab 1.  
 
ROSA arvensis.
... that called the Ayrshire Rose is only a variation, possessing no particular difference but what may be found in alterations of soil, atmosphere, or mode of culture.

(1828)  Page(s) tab 41.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA pinnatifida.
Many-winged-leaved Rose.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with turban-shaped seed-buds and peduncles hispid; flowers grow mostly by pairs; blossoms of a pale flesh colour in the centre, the outer petals of a whitish colour, and marked with red on the under surface; leaves spreading: leaflets ovate, pointed, and sawed at the edges: footstalks prickly; stem with spines  numerous, long, and straight.

This new seedling Rose was introduced from Rouen in Normandy by Messrs. Calvert and Crace to the Hammersmith Nursery in 1820 under the hyperbole of Belle Aurore. It is a light semi-double Rose, distinct in its character from any hitherto known to us. The seed buds are different in shape from most, and the leaves are furnished with more leaflets than usual : the stems and petioles are beset with numerous prickles and spines, that seem to indicate a near affinity to some native briar with which at present we are unacquainted.
[Fascicle number not known]

(1806)  Page(s) fasc. 5, tab. 37.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA Belgica, blanda.
Blush Belgic Rose.

Specific Character. Rose, with globose seed-buds, slightly glandular ; peduncles hispidly glandular, flowers crowded, and of a pale flesh-colour, leaflets are ovate, and pointed; the stem and petioles prickly.

This fine pale variety of the Belgic Rose is much esteemed. Its flowers are in succession abundant, but rarely more than two are in perfection at one time. A considerable degree of sameness certainly pervades the Dutch species, to which a judicious curtailment will be very serviceable, by excluding those very trivial florescent varieties from a figurative description; by which abbreviation, a much greater degree of interest will be attached to those, that actually possess a character sufficiently distinct, to require a separate figure, and at the same time it will get rid of an heterogeneous mass of superlative phrases made use of occasionally by way of discrimination. The Author will nevertheless give as satisfactory a reason as possible for the apparent expulsion of any of this attractive genus.
Our figure was made from a fine plant in the nursery of Messrs. Colville, King's Road, in the month of July, from which period till September it is in constant bloom.

(1818)  Page(s) fasc. 32, tab 26.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA speciosa, et Varietas multiplex.
Showy or Swiss Rose, and its many-petalled Variety.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with seed buds turban-shaped; peduncles and petioles hispid; flowers large and semi
double; those of the variety very large, with numerous petals obliquely situated.

The Rosa speciosa is well known in the gardens by the appellation of the Swiss Rose, and bears an abundance of fine large blossoms during the months of June and July. The variety is a larger-flowering rose, crowded with petals to the exclusion of all the stamens : the flowers frequently so much resemble those of the genus Paeonia, from the oblique position of the petals, that it is sometimes called Paeonia-flowered Rose; but double flowers are too mutable to afford any permanent distinction.

[Synonymity of Swiss Rose = Celsiana based on Trattinnick (1823)]

(1808)  Page(s) fasc. 11, tab. 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA Bella Donna.
Maiden's-blush Rose.

Specific Character. Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds, and hispid peduncles. Flowers crowded, of a pale flesh colour. Leaves spreading. Leaflets broadly egg-shaped and sharp-pointed. Stem and petioles prickly.

There cannot be a Rose better known than this delicate species, under the title of The Maiden's Blush. It is considered, among the Garden Roses, as the second in progressive routine from the wild species, but must certainly be ranked among the first in beauty. Our figure represents what is called the Clustered variety; an appellation we have not adopted, as it would have compelled us to have given two other nominal varieties; the one, whose flowers are rather smaller; the other, with flowers less crowded. But when the latitude of growth that appertains to this luxuriant tribe is considered, they may with propriety be regarded as the variations of culture only.
During the months of July and August this Rose is in the greatest perfection. We have frequently remarked the foliage of this Rose, upon most old plants, to be of a very dark or blackish green; but, on the younger ones, to be nearly the same in colour as the minor variety.

(1806)  Page(s) fasc. 3, tab. 21.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA Provincialis, multiplex.
Double or Cabbage Province Rose.

Specific Character. Rose, with many folds, and nearly round seed-buds;: the peduncles and petioles are hispid and glandular; the prickles of the branches are scattered, straight, and slightly reflexed; leaflets egg-shaped, villous beneath, with glandular margins.

This variety of the Common Province is the most fragrant of all the Roses, and therefore particularly desirable; for, although it cannot be ranked among the rare, it is nevertheless one of the most beautiful. Its sweetness, joined to the abundance of its blossoms, has rendered it an object of culture, for the purpose of distillation; as it yields a much greater quantity of scented water than any other rose. It is generally denominated the Cabbage Province, from the extreme complexity of its petals, which sometimes adhere so closely together, as to prevent entirely their expansion without bursting:—a circumstance that frequently occurs in the vegetable from which its specific distinction is derived, and which we regard to be unequivocally good, as we should every similitude of equally easy reference. By the closeness and superabundance of its petals only, is it distinguished from the Common Province, of which it is certainly an interesting variety.

(1816)  Page(s) fasc. 29, tab. 31.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA dianthiflora.
Pink-flowered Rose.

Specific Character. Rose with ovate, glandular seed-buds; the empalement glandular, and extending beyond the blossoms; flowers small, flesh-coloured, and very sweet scented, with numerous halbert-shaped petals; footstalks and petioles hispid and glandular; leaflets ovate, sawed, villose beneath.

This curious little Rose is one of the novelties recently imported from Holland, and known there by the French title of Rose Œillet, or Pink Rose. It certainly very much resembles the genus Dianthus in the size, form, and colour of its flowers : even their odour is like the carnation : in every other particular it is quite a provincialis. Whether this singular alteration has been produced by grafting, or is only an accidental transformation, we cannot learn. It is evidently an expulsion of petals from the common Province Rose; and Nature, true to its first position, is still struggling (though ineffectually) to pass the barrier of its confinement, which may be seen by two of the petals, that obtrude in spite of all restraint.
Our figure was delineated from a plant at the Nursery of Mr. Knight, of the King's Road, Chelsea, this summer, 1816.

(1828)  Page(s) tab 36.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA centifolia: Varietates.
Varieties of the Hundred-leaved Rose.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Roses with nearly round seed-buds and peduncles hispid; stem and petioles hispid and prickly; leaves winged; leaflets ovate, and villose beneath; flowers of a purple colour; blossoms double, or crowded with petals.

These variations of the centifolia species were delineated from plants in the Hammersmith collection. The variety with the most numerous petals is called The early Italian. Wherefore it is so called, not being a native of Italy, we are at a loss to guess : in other collections it most probably bears various appellations. To reconcile the contradictory epithets by which different cultivators may designate them, would be not only difficult, but altogether useless.
[Fascicle number not known]

(1818)  Page(s) fasc. 32, tab. 26.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA speciosa, et Varietas multiplex.
Showy or Swiss Rose, and its many-petalled Variety.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Rose with seed buds turban-shaped; peduncles and petioles hispid; flowers large and semi
double; those of the variety very large, with numerous petals obliquely situated.

The Rosa speciosa is well known in the gardens by the appellation of the Swiss Rose, and bears an abundance of fine large blossoms during the months of June and July. The variety is a larger-flowering rose, crowded with petals to the exclusion of all the stamens : the flowers frequently so much resemble those of the genus Paeonia, from the oblique position of the petals, that it is sometimes called Paeonia-flowered Rose; but double flowers are too mutable to afford any permanent distinction.

(1808)  Page(s) fasc. 11, tab. 17.  Includes photo(s).
 
ROSA Bella Donna; Var. flore minore.
Maiden's-blush Rose; Small-flowered Variety.

Specific Character. Rose with egg-shaped seed-buds, and hispid peduncles. Flowers numerous, smallish, and of a pale flesh colour. Leaves spreading. Leaflets egg-shaped and pointed. Stem and petioles prickly.

This minor Variety of the Maiden's Blush, like the larger one, is said to possess two equally trivial variations. The only observable distinction in this variety is the very small size of its flowers, compared with the preceding figure. Yet, as it delineates the latitude of growth annexed to this species, it stands in no great need of an apology. But how we could have apologized, in a satisfactory manner, for the introduction of four more intermediate varieties, we know not ; but rather think we must have borrowed the specific character of the present species, and blushed for their intrusion. The specific we have adopted is only retained among cultivators for this minor Variety, doubtless with the intention of preserving an appearance of greater distinction.
From fine plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, this species has been delineated.