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prickly, and very much branched. The IcaTCs ar^ 

 of a dusky green, each composed of several pairar 

 of smaller, with an odd one at the end. The flow- 

 ers are somewhat smaller than those of the damask 

 rose, but of the same form : and their colour is 

 "white, and they have less fragrance than the 

 damask. 



The flowers are used. They are to be gathered 



in Ihchudj and used fresh or dry, A strong infu* 

 sion of them is good against overflowings of the 

 raenses^ and the bleeding of the piles. 



The Red Rose. JRosa rubra. 



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ANOTHER shrub common in our gardens, and 

 the least and lowest of the three kinds of roses. The 

 stalks are round, woody, weak, and prickly, but 

 ilicy have fewer prickles than those of the damask 

 rose : the leaves are large _;'they are composed each' 

 of three or four pair of smaller, which arc oval, of a 

 dusky green, and se-rratcd round the edges. The 

 flowers are of the shape and size of those of the 

 damask rose, but they are not so double, and they 

 have a great quantity of j^ellow threads in the mid- 

 dle. Tl^cy arc of an exceeding line deep red co- 

 lour, and they havo very little smell ; the fruit ii 

 like the common liip. 



The flow^ers are used. They are to he gathered 

 •«vheu in bud, and cut from the husks without the 



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white bottoms and dried. The conserve of re* 

 roses is made of these buds prepared as for the 

 drying; they are beaten up with three times their 

 weight of sugar. When dried, they have more vir- 

 tue ; they are given in infusion, and sometimes in' 

 powder against overflowings of the menses, and all 

 other bleedings. Half an ouace of these dried buds 

 iire to be put into an earthen pan, and a pint of 



