ROSACEiE. XXII. Rosa, 



58 



i 



glabrous. Tj , H. Native country unknown. Nearly allied to 

 R. rubiginosa ex Tratt. 1. c. 

 MauhscKs Rose. Shrub. 



\ 



Kroker's Rose. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



204 R. ambi'gua (Lejeune. rev. fl, spa. p. 98.) fruit egg- 

 shaped, glabrous, furnished with a few stalked glands ; peduncles 

 196 R. AndreVsii (Tratt. ros. 2. p. 205.) fruit elliptic, glabrous, rarely glandular ; leaflets glabrous on both surfaces, 



glabrous; sepals oblong, quite entire, glabrous ; peduncles and 

 petioles hispid ; stem unarmed ; leaflets somewhat doubly ser- 

 rated, glabrous, glaucescent beneath; flowers lateral, solitary, 

 deep purple, drooping ; fruit pendulous. Tj . H. Native coun- 



ciliated. Tj 

 R. canina. 



Ambiguous Rose. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 



hap 



ety of 



try unknown. R. inermis, Andr. ros. fasc. 2. Very nearly 205 R. sylva'tica (Tausch, in fl. vol. 2. p. 464. ex Tratt. 



allied to R. alpina. 



Far. /3, dtbilis (Tratt. 1. c. p. 206.) stems weak, decumbent ; 

 kaflets small, nearly like those of R. spinostssima ; flowers large, 

 twin, very beautiful, between scarlet and blood-coloured. 



Andrews's Rose. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



197 R. Serafi^nh (Viviani, add. fl. ital. fragm, and fl. libyc. 



ros. 1. p. 58.) fruit ovate, and are, as well as the peduncles, his- 

 pid ; flowers cymose ; petioles beset with glandular pili and 

 prickles ; leaflets ovate, acute, unequally and deeply glandularly 

 serrated, pilose beneath; stems bristly or prickly. 

 Native of Bohemia, in shady places. 

 Wood Rose. Shrub 4 to C feet. 



h. H. 



p. 67. fl. cors. spec. nov. 8.) germens oblong, and are, as well as H 



the peduncles, glabrous ; stem and petioles prickly ; prickles 

 recurved, falcate ; stipulas ovate ; leaflets roundish, doubly ser- 



, H. Native of Corsica, on 



— The rose is known by every body at first sight, 



rated, with the teeth glandular, 

 mount Coscione. 



T? 



Seraji\ 



Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



198 R.^ glabrata (Vest, ex Tratt. ros. 2. p. 220.) fruit . 



large, solitary, nearly globose; peduncles very short; leaflets tage upwards. 



roundish-elliptic, decurrent at the base, doubly serrated, quite &c. are also cultivated on a large scale by commercial gardeners 



glabrous on both surfaces, with glandular margins ; prickles scat- for distilling rose-water, and for making attar or essential oil of 



and has been a favourite flower from time immemorial among 

 the civilized nations of Europe and Asia. The shrub varies in 

 size in different species and varieties, and the colours are red, 

 white, purple, yellow, black, striped, or in almost numberless 

 shades and mixtures, from single to semidouble and double. 

 Roses are cultivated in every garden, from the most humble cot- 

 Some species, as 72. ccniifdlia. R, damascena. 



tered, usually twin. 

 impmcUifdlia 



T2 . H. Native of Styria. Allied to R. roses. Six pounds of rose petals will impregnate by distillation 



Smoofhish Rose. Shrub 3 to 4 feet. 



199 R. si'mplex (Scop. fl. earn. ed. 2. vol. 1. p. 353. ex 

 Iratt. ros. p. 229.) fruit ovate, glabrous ; leaflets glabrous be- 

 neath ; sepals beset with glandular bristles. T2 . H. Native 

 country unknown. R. Scopohana, Tratt. 1. c. Allied to R. 

 <^lphia or cinnamomea. 



Simple Rose. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



200 R. orienta'lis (Dupont in litt. D. C. prod. 2. p. 607.) 

 uwarf ; stem prickly, glabrous ; prickles conical, slender ; young 

 oranehes puberulous ; leaflets roundish, tomentosc, serrate- 

 crenated ; fruit globose, hispid ; peduncles tomentose and hispid ; 

 sepals nearly entire. Tj . H. Native of Persia. 



a gallon of water strongly with its odour ; but a hundred pounds 

 afford hardly half an ounce of attar. The rose is also used in 

 medicine. Botanists are not agreed as to the number of original 

 species of this genus, and notwithstanding the labours of many 

 scientific men the genus still remains a chaos, from which it can 

 never be extricated. We have endeavoured in the foregoing 

 pages to render the species as clear as it is practicable from the 

 present knowledge of the genus. The most scientific work 

 which has appeared upon the subject in England is the '* Rosa- 

 rum Monographia," of John Lindley, 1S19 ; and Miss Lawrence 

 has published about ninety plates of " A Collection of Roses 

 from Nature," 1810. In France Guillemeau has published 

 " Histoire Naturelle de la Rose," 1800, and P. J. Redoute and 



^ar. a, Oliveriana (Ser. in D. C. prod. 2. p. 607.) leaflets C. A. Thory have published a splendid work in folio, entituled 



^ery veiny and smoothish beneath; peduncles puberulous, but "Les Roses," containing plates of both species and varieties, 



'^ot glandular; fruit glabrous, hispid. Tj . H. Native of Persia. C. A. Thory has published a separate tract on the culture of 



^a*"- /3, Balbisiana TSer. 1. c.^ leaflets hardlv veinv, puberu- roses, entitled " Prodrome de la Monagraphie du genre Rosier," 



«>us beneath; peduncles tomentose and hispid; tube of calyx &c. 1820. M. A. Pronville a *' Nomenclature Raisonnee", in 



^ery hispid and glandular. 

 Oriental Rose. 



T2. H. 



Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



Fl. June, July. - .- 



y ^\Ventenatia'na (Red. ros. 3. p. 83. with a figure,) 

 ^^hne prickles unequal, crowded, straight ; germ finger-shaped, 

 ^set with glandular bristles at the base, as well as the pe- 



Z^ncles ; flowers nearly sessile, b • H. Native country un- 

 known. ^ 



^menaVs Rose. Fl. June, July. Shrub. 

 y202 R. cane'scens (Krok. fl. siles: 2. p. 153. no. 784. ex 

 ^^att. ros. 2. p. 226.) fruit nearly globose, and are hispid, as 

 *^U as the peduncles ; leaflets lanceolate, glabrous on both sur- 



1818. J. Sabine has given an account of Scotch roses in Hort. 

 trans. 4. p. 231. Many varieties of the rose are yearly raised 

 from seeds in the nurseries. 



Varieties are raised from seed on the continent, where the 

 seed ripens better than in this country. A number of varieties 

 have also been raised in this country, especially of the /?. spinO' 

 sissima or Scotch-rose. New varieties are raised in France and 



^3, discoloured, simply serrated ; principal stem nearly un- thejr proper species, 

 jy^ed, canescent; branches prickly and very hispid ; stipulas " ''- 



*^^^' very long. Tj • H. Native of Silesia. 

 ^^nescent Rose. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 

 ^03 R. Kroke'ri (Tratt. ros. 2. p. 231.) fruit globose, and 

 ^> as well as the peduncles, glabrous and unarmed ; leaflets 

 "sually 3, elliptic, obtuse, serrated at the apex, clothed with 



Italy annually. L. Villaresi, royal gardener at Monza, has 

 raised upwards of 50 varieties of /J. I ndicuy some of tliem are 

 quite black, others shaped like ft^ranunculus, and many of them 

 highly odoriferous. Ample lists of the varieties arc given under 



ary 



*'ok. fl. siles. 2. p. 13% 



T2 . H. Native of Silesia 



pygmae 



Propagation. — By seed for new varieties, and chiefly by 

 layers for continuing approved sorts. They are also increased 



by budding, cuttings, and suckers. 



By seed. — The hips containing the seeds are obtained from 

 semidouble and single flowers, and to increase the chance of new 

 varieties, these should be taken from plants that have been 

 planted among or near to the kinds of which a cross is desired. 

 Extracting the stamens from one flower, and dusting the 



stigmas with the 

 4 F 2 



i:t 



lien of another kind, might answer in mo«t 





