(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 189.  
 
On the first known production of La Blanche Unique, or the white Provence, it was discovered by Mr. Daniel Grimwood, nurseryman, of Little Chelsea. He was on a journey of business, in the county of Norfolk, in the month of July, 1775, when riding very leisurely along the road, he perceived a Rose of great whiteness, in a mill; he alighted, and on close inspection, discovered it to be a Provence Rose. He then sought an interview with the inmate of the mill, who was an elderly female, and begged a flower, which was instantly given him, and in return he gave her a guinea. In cutting off the Hower he cut three buds. He went to the first inn, packed it up, and sent it direct to my father, who was then his foreman, at his nursery, Little Chelsea, requesting him to bud it, which he did, and two of the buds grew. In the following autumn he went down to the same place, and, for five guineas, brought the whole stock away. He then made an arrangement with my
father to propagate it, allowing him 5s. per plant, for three years. At the expiration of that time he sold it out, at 21s. per plant, my father's share amounting to upwards of 3001. Mr. Grimwood sent the old lady at the mill a superb silver tankard, &c., to the amount of 60£.

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The Shailer's Provence, or Rosea gracilis, so named by Messrs. Lee, was raised from seeds of the Spineless or Virgin's Rose, sown by myself in 1799, and flowered in 1802. We raised numerous varieties from seed up to 1816, and generally sold them to Messrs. Lee, who sent them out under their own naming. - Extract from Practical Gardener.

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The first production of the Moss de meux was from a sport of the old De meux, in the neighbourhood of Bristol, but brought into a high state of perfection by Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith.

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
On the first introduction of the old red moss rose, in or about the year 1735, it was sent over with some plants of orange trees, from the Italian States, to Mr. Wrench, then a nurseryman and gardener, at Broomhouse, Fulham, the same land being now in the occupation of the descendants of that family, the Messrs. Fitch, extensive market gardeners, &c. It remained in that family nearly twenty years, without being much noticed or circulated, until a nurseryman, named Grey, of the Fulham nursery, now Messrs. Osborn's, brought it into note.

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The Sage-leaf Moss Rose I must claim myself. It was a sport of nature. I discovered it on a Sunday afternoon, in the month of June, 1813. I sold the whole stock to Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith. It has a delicate shell-like form, and is a beautiful blush ; now nearly extinct.

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The old scarlet moss rose, which is a semidouble, first flowered in 1808, on a plant given by my father to his brother, F. Shailer, of Cook's Ground and Queen's Elm, Chelsea. 

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ORIGIN OF SEVERAL VARIETIES OF MOSS ROSES.
BY MR. H. SHAILER, CHAPEL NURSERY, BATTERSEA FIELDS, LONDON.
The Shailer's Provence, or Rosea gracilis, so named by Messrs. Lee, was raised from seeds of the Spineless or Virgin's Rose, sown by myself in 1799, and flowered in 1802. We raised numerous varieties from seed up to 1816, and generally sold them to Messrs. Lee, who sent them out under their own naming. - Extract from Practical Gardener.

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The first production of the single red moss rose, 1807, was a sport of nature. My father sent some plants of moss roses to a nurseryman, named Essex, at Colchester, and on the receipt of a letter from that person, I went with my father to see the plant when it was in bloom. I took some cuttings away with me to bud, and the following autumn fetched the original plant to our nursery, at Little Chelsea, from whence we sent the first plants out, at 5s.

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
[Henry Shailer senior] then entered into a contract with those highly respectable and extensive nurserymen, Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammersmith, they taking as many plants as he could grow for three years, at 20s. per plant, binding him not to sell to any one else under 42s. per plant. After cutting down the shoots which produced the white moss, the plant threw up two weak shoots, which he budded from ; they flowered the second season from the buds, and that was the birth of the striped moss rose, a most beautiful and delicate variety, but when grown very strong, apt to go back to the original parent. 

(Jul 1851)  Page(s) 188.  
 
The first production of the white moss rose, which took place in the year 1788, was from a sucker, or underground shoot. My father, Henry Shailer, nurseryman, of Little Chelsea, an extensive grower of moss roses, perceiving it to be a lusus naturæ, from a stool of the red moss, cut it off, and budded it on the white Provence, or Rose La Blanche Unique. The buds fowered the following season a pale blush. He budded them again the next season, when the flower came much wbiter. It was then figured in Andrew's Rosary, under the name of Shailer's White Moss. He then sold it out, the first plants to Lord Kimbolton, then to the Marquis of Blandford, Lady de Clifford, the Duke of Gloucester, &c., at five guineas per plant. He continued to sell at that price for three years ; he then entered into a contract with those highly respectable and extensive nurserymen, Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of Hammersmith, they taking as many plants as he could grow for three years, at 20s. per plant, binding him not to sell to any one else under 42s. per plant.