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tangled ; they will keep it in its position : a 

 stiff breeze will tlien scarcely remove it. The 

 fertilising will take place without further trouble, 

 and a fine hip full of seed will be the result. To 

 obtain seed from the Luxembourg Moss, I need 

 scarcely say that this operation must be reversed. 

 A wall is not always necessary to ripen seed ; for 

 in dry soils and airy exposed situations, the above 

 Moss Eoses bear seed in tolerable abundance. 

 The treatment of the hips, sowing the seed, and 

 the management of the young plants, as appli- 

 cable to all, is given at the end of the First Part. 



THE FKENCH EOSE. 



(ROSA TtALLICA.) 



Rosier de Provins. 



The French Eose (Eosa gallica of botanists) is an 

 inhabitant of the continent of Europe, growing 

 abundantly in the hedges of France and Italy. 

 In the ' Florae Eomanse ' of Sebastian!, published 

 at Eome in 1818, this rose, Eosa sempervirens, 

 and Eosa canina, are said to be the only roses 

 growing naturally in the Papal States. It was 

 one of the earliest roses introduced to our gardens, 

 and is supposed by some to be the Eosa Milesiana 

 of Pliny, so named from its growing abundantly 

 near Miletus in Asia Minor : it has also historical 

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