250 ON FLOWERING TREES AND SHRUBS. 



small trees with drooping branches, are particularly beautiful, and 

 would be very ornamental on a lawn. 



The roses are the last of the flowering shrubs that we shall here 

 notice, and their beauty is so universally acknowledged, that itre- 

 quires very little comment. The number and variety of the roses 

 are not, however, generally known ; but it is a fact that Messrs. 

 Loddiges, and Wood, of Maresfield, possess nearly two thousand 

 named species and varieties. 



Amidst this wilderness of sweets it would be difficult to choose, 

 had not the whole mass been arranged by Messrs. Wood, Rivers, 

 and others, under seventeen or eighteen different heads. Of the 

 moss roses, there are twenty-four sorts, including the white moss, 

 which is very delicate, and extremely difficult to keep alive, and 

 the dark crimson moss, called the Rouge du Luxembourg. Of 

 the cabbage or Provence roses there are twenty-five sorts ; these 

 were the hundred-leaved roses of the ancients ; and as the flow- 

 ers are, perhaps, more fragrant than those of any other species, it 

 is from these roses that rose-water and oil of roses are generally 

 made. The perpetual roses, of which there are fifty kinds, are 

 most beautifully tinted with a rich glowing colour ; and they are 

 valuable for the great length of time that they continue producing 

 flowers. There are eighty-nine sorts of the hybrid China roses, 

 seventy of the China roses, fifty-one of the tea-scented, and twenty 

 five of the white roses, all very beautiful and tolerably distinct. 

 The conserve of roses, and other medical preparations of this 

 flower, are prepared from the damask roses, of which there are 

 twenty-five sorts, and the French or Provins roses, of which there 

 are ninety-nine sorts. The French rose has less scent than most 

 of the other kinds, and yet is often confused with the fragrant 

 hundred leaved rose, from the similarity of the words Provins and 

 Provence. The former of these names only signifies, however, a 

 small place near Paris, where roses of this kind are grown in large 

 quantities for the use of the Parisian druggists. 



Of the climbing roses there are fifty-three superior sorts ; and 

 these, when trained on a wooden frame, or pegged down to cover 

 a sloping bank, have a beautiful effect. The fairy roses, of which 

 there are sixteen sorts, are very delicate and pretty ; and the 

 noisette roses, of which there are sixty-six sorts, are very beau- 

 tiful. Besides these, there are Macartney roses, musk roses, Isle 

 de Bourbon roses, Scotch roses, sweet briars, and many others. 



