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dog-fruit. In French these roses are called rosier sauvage^ 

 wild rose-bush ; rosier des haies, hedge rose-bush ; rose de 

 chien, dog rose; rose cochonniere, swine rose; eg/antier; 

 eglantine: in Italian they are called rosa salvafica ; rosa 

 cavina. 



The Scotch Rose is also common to most parts of Eu- 

 rope ; the petals are white, or cream-coloured ; yellow at 

 the base and sometimes striped with red : the fruit is a 

 dark pvirple, and the pericarp contains a fine purple juice, 

 which, diluted with water, dyes silk and muslin peach- 

 colour: the addition of alum will make it a deep violet 

 dye. The fruit, when ripe, is eaten by children : the leaves 

 are small and elegant : the whole plant seldom exceeds a 

 foot in height : it Hkes the shade and a moist soil. 



The Common Provins Rose — French, rose de Frovins — 

 is one of the most beautiful yet known in the English gar- 

 dens : it is very large and full, folded close in the manner 

 of a cabbage ; some call it the Cabbage-Rose on this ac- 

 count. It is the most fragrant as well as the handsomest 

 kind we have : it will grow seven or eight feet high. The 

 petals, which are deep red and of a powerful scent, may 

 be kept for a year or eighteen months by being pressed 

 close. It takes its name not from Provence, as is com- 

 monly supposed, but from Provins, a small town about 

 fifty miles from Paris, where it is largely cultivated : and 

 where it was first introduced from the east. 



There are two small varieties of the Provins which are 

 much esteemed, the Rose de Meaux and the Pompone 

 Rose : if the old wood of these kinds be cut down every 

 year after they have done blowing, it will cause them to 

 shoot more vigorously, and to flower more freely. 



The Moss-rose, or Moss Provins-rose, is well known as 

 an elegant plant ; the flowers are deeply coloured, and the 

 rich mossiness which surrounds them gives them a luxuriant 

 appearance not easily described ; but it is familiar to every 



