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310 lie UJeful Family HerhaL 



The White Rose. 



ROSA ALBA. 



Common Shrub alfo in our Gardens. It 

 grows ten' or twelve Feet high, but is not 

 very able to fupport itfelf upright. The Stalks 

 are round, prickly, and very much branched. 

 The Leaves are of a dufky Green, each com- 

 pofed of feveral Pairs of fmaller, with an odd one 

 at the End. Ths Flowers are fomev/hat fmaller, 

 than thofe of the Damafk-Rofe, but of the fame 

 Form : and their Colour is white, and they have 

 lefs Fragrance than the Damafk. 



The Flowers are ufed. They are to be ga- 

 thered in the Bud, and ufed frefh or dry. A 

 flrontr Infufion of them is good againft Overfiow- 

 ings of the Menfes, and the Bleeding ot the 

 Piles. 



The Red Rose. 



ROSA RUBRA. 



Nothcr Shrub common in our Gardens, and 



the leaft and lowefl of the three Kinds ot 



Rofes. The Stalks are round, woody, weak, 



Prickles, 



than thofe of' the Damafk-Rofe : The Leaves are 



d prickly, but they have fewer 



pofed each of three or four 

 Pair of frnaller v/hich are oval, of a duflvy Green 

 and ferrated round the Edges. The Flowers are 

 of the Shape and Size of thofe of the Damafk- 

 Rofe, but they are not fo double, and they have 

 a great Quantity of yellow Threads in the Middle. 

 They are of an exceeding fine deep red Colour, 

 and they have very little" Smell : The Fruit is like 

 the common Hip. 



The Flowers are ufed. Thev are to be gathered 



Bud, and cut from tlie Hufks 



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