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The Sultan Rose; the Slopney Hose; the (hunet Rose; the 

 Bisho}) Rose; and the Lisl)on Rose. 



The fourleenlh species has the stalks gmwiii'j; erect, and scarce 

 any spines; they rise IVoni three to four feet high: the leaves are 

 composed of liiree or five large oval leatiels, which are haiiy on their 

 underside: the leaves of the calyx are undivided: the llowers are 

 large, l)ut not very double, sj)read open wiiic, and decay soon ; they 

 are of a deep red colour, and ha\c an agreeable scent. " Parkinson 

 gives the Red Rose the epithet of Jinglish, as this and tlii' While are 

 the most anticnt and known Roses to the country, and .assumed by 

 our precedent kings of all others, to be cognizances of their dignity, 

 and because the Red is more frequent and used in England ihau in 

 other places. The Howers, he says, vary in colour; some arc of an 

 orient red or deep crimson colour, and very double, although never 

 so double as the White; some again are paler, lending somewhat to 

 a damask ; and some are of so pale a red, as that they are rather the 

 colour of the Canker Rose; yet all for the most part with larger 

 leaves than ihe damask, and with many more yellow threads (sta- 

 mens) in the middle: the scent is much belter ihan in the White, but 

 not comparable to the excellency of the Damask Rose; yet this, 

 being well dried and kept, will hold both colour and scent longer 

 than the Damask." 



There are several varieties: as the Red Oflicinal Rose; the Mundi 

 Rose, which has the flowers very elegantly striped or variegated 

 with red and while; in other circumstances it so perfectly resembles 

 the Red Rose, that there can be no doubt of its being a variety of 

 that; indeed it frecpiently happens that a Red Rose or two ap[)ears 

 on the same plant with the variegated flowers. 



T'he Childing Rose, the Marbled Rose, and the Double Virgin 

 Rose, which have great aflinily with each other, according to 

 Miller. 



The fifteenth rises with prickly stalks eight or ten feet high, co- 

 vered with a greenish bark, and armed with short prickles: the leaves 

 are composed of live or seven oval leaflets, dark green above, but 

 pale underneath; the borders frccjuently turn brown and are slightly 



