18th Century Roses (and earlier)

George Ehret 1740s

Striped Monthly Rose

Rosa Provincialis spinosissima
peduncule muscoso

Common Provence Rose

Royal Virgin Rose
(Rosa pendulina, R. alpina)

Robert Furber 1730

White Monthly Rose

Moss province Rose

Rosa Mundi

White Rose

Dutch Hundred Leav'd Rose

Maiden's Blush Rose

Blush Belgick Rose

Catalogus Plantarum 1730

Double Velvet Rose

Moss province Rose

Double Yellow Rose

Austrian Rose

Red Provence Rose

"A Byzantine", 512

Dioscorides' Rhodon


Clusius, 1557

Le Rosier


Jacques Le Moyne, 1586

Muske Rose

Eglentine

Rosa Rubrum


Joachim Camerarius, c1597

Rosa cinericeo flore
Aschenfarbig Rosen

Hortus Eystettensis 1613

Rosa Damascena flore pleno


Crispijn van de Passe 1615

Rosa Moschata or Damask Rose


Tabernaemontanus 1625

Eleven Roses
Select "Pflanzen A-Z" at left, then scroll down to "Rose"


John Gerard 1636

Province or Damask Rose
(after Clusius, 1601)


Sir Thomas Hanmer 1659

Of Roses


Nicolas Robert c1660

Rosa Provincialis


Joncquet: Roses (1659)

Cotgrave: Roses (1673)

Miller: Roses (1724)

Roses in Jamaica (1794)

Roxburgh: Flora Indica - Roses (1813)

Roxburgh: Hortus Bengalensis - Roses (1814)

Roses in Mauritius (1816, 1822)

East India Company: Roses (1817-1818)

Irvine: Roses in Ajmeer district of India (1841)

Voigt: Hortus Suburbanus Calcuttensis, Roses (1845)

Schomburgk: Roses in Barbados (1848)

Richardson: Roses in India (1855)

Pierre Redouté 1820

Rosa canina borboniana

Rosa damascena Italica

Rosa damascena bifera alba