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the more fragrant. The Moss Rose is supposed to be 

 only a variety of the Provence Rose, and not a sepa- 

 rate species J but I have seen a single- moss-rose 

 which would seem to militate against that opinion. 

 The damask Rose produces white and red flowers on 

 the same tree, and has been celebrated in our history 

 as the emblems of tJie houses of York and Lancaster, 

 when those families contended for the crown: the 

 White Rose distinguished the partisans of tlie House of 

 York ; the red, the party of Lancaster. There are two 

 varieties also of this Rose which blossom more than 

 once a year 3 tlie one is commonly called the Monthly 

 Rose, and the other has been celebrated by the Latin 

 poets for blossoming twice a year, and is called the 

 Passtan Rose/ 



Water distilled from the wild rose is said to be 

 more fragrant than the common Rose-water. Haller 

 says of it, " Fragrantia ejus olei omnia alia odora- 

 menta superat" 



•■ Forsitan et pingues hortos quae cura colendi 

 Ornarct, canerem, biferique rosaria Paesti ; 



Virg. Georg. Lib. iv. 

 Fragravit ore quod rosarium Paesti 



Martial, Lib. v. Epig. 37- 

 Prataque nee bifero cessura rosaria Paesti 



Ibid. Lib. xii. Epig. 81* 

 Psstum was anciently called Sistilis, afterwards changed 

 to Possidonia, and then to Paestum, about the year 272 before 

 Christ, when it was subdued by the Romans; about which time 



