Here is a list of roses mentioned by John Abercrombie in 'Every Man His Own Gardener', THE TWENTIETH EDITION, "Corrected and greatly enlarged, with many considerable New Additions of various Plants, Flowers, Trees, Fruits, &c, and of numerous very essential Improvements, in a more full and comprehensive manner, in every department of the work, than in any former edition". Dated 1813.
Roses:
Early cinnamon Double yellow Single yellow Red monthly White monthly Double white Moss Provence Common Provence Double velvet Single ditto Blush Belgick Red ditto Marbled Large royal York and Lancaster Red damask Blush ditto White damask Austrian yellow Austrian, with flowers, having one side red and the other yellow. Double musk Royal virgin Rosa Mundi, i.e. rose of the world, or striped red rose Frankfort Cluster-blush Maiden blush Virgin or thornless Common red Burnet-leaved Scotch, the dwarf Striped Scotch Apple-bearing Single American Rose of Meaux Pennsylvania Red cluster Burgundy rose Briar, double red, sweet, double blush, yellow, Eglantine briar.
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