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Lave them for their perfume jars. If you desire seed of any variety, 

 allow a few of the first blooms to expand, remove all the rest, give 

 the tree no water, and leave the rest to nature and to fate. If you 

 impregnate with selected pollen, tie the impregnated flower in a 

 light muslin bag. To induce any particular variety to seed, keep 

 it on poor diet and give it very little water, the blooms will then 

 come comparatively single, and will furnish or receive pollen, as 

 may be desired. If the flower intended to receive the pollen is not 

 open at the same time as the father flower, the pollen may be taken 

 off with a dry camel's-hair pencil, and be preserved between silver 

 paper till required. 



In the rose-house give air night and day, deluge the place with 

 water, train in all this season's growth ; do not shade, except for 

 special reasons, as when yellow roses are just opening, then a little 

 shade is good. Assist the Teas with some good fertilizer on the 

 surface to help them in the autumn bloom. There is nothing so 

 good as half rotten dung, but as it is unsightly, a mixture of guano 

 and wood ashes is to be preferred, and it should be carefully 

 pricked in. 



USES OF THE ROSE. 



IJOSE WATER is distilled from the petals of pale roses, in 

 preference to deep red ones, mixed with a small quantity 

 of water; and in France those of the musk rose is 

 preferred when they can be obtained. This product of 

 the rose was known to the Greeks in the time of Homer, 

 and to Avicenna among the Arabs, a.d. 980. It is more or less in 

 use, in every civilized country, for the toilet, and on occasions of 

 festivals and religious ceremonies. Vinegar of Roses is made by 

 simply infusing dried rose petals in the best distilled vinegar. It is 

 used on the continent for curing headaches produced by the vapours 

 of charcoal, or the heat of the sun. For this purpose, cloths or linen 

 rags, moistened with the vinegar, are applied to the head, and left 

 there till they are dried by evaporation. 



Spirit of Roses is produced by distilling rose petals with a small 

 quantity of spirits of wine. This produces a very fragrant spirit, 

 which, when mixed with sugar, makes the liqueur known in France 

 by the name of Vhuile cle rose : it also forms the ground-work of 

 the liqueur called parfait amour. 



Conserve of Hoses is prepared by bruising in a mortar the petals 

 with their weight in sugar, till the whole forms a homogeneous mass. 

 In the earlier ages, according to Rosembourg, in his " History of the 

 Rose " (published in 1631), the rose was a specific against every 

 disease. It was much in use in the time of Gerard, and is still 

 employed in the composition of electuaries and many other medicines. 

 Attar of Hoses. — Essence, attar, otto, or, as it is sometimes called, 

 butter of Roses, is the most celebrated of all the different preparations 

 from this flower, and forms an object of commerce on the coast of 



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