250 ON THE ROSE. 



Sang du Baeut Glaphyra 



Triumph de Lisle 



Violet Alexander Bizarre Breeders* 



• a son Noir 



Extra Old Dutch Catafalque 



...... Wallers Cato 



Washington Charbonnier Noir 



Polyphemus 



Selfs. 



Byblomen. 



Roi Min d'or 



White Flag Lancashire Hero 



Smiling Beauty 

 Rose Breeders. Violet Alexander 



Amy Robsart 

 Duchess of Newcastle 

 Lady Crewe 



New varieties exhibited this year.— Sir Thomas, Bizarre, won 

 four premier Prizes this year; Lady of the Lake, Byblomen, 

 like Roi de Siam ; Sancta Sophia, Byblomen, like violet Alexan- 

 der; Hannibal, Flamed Bizarre; Euclid, Feathered Bizarre, 

 &c. &c. Sec. 



ARTICLE V. 



REMARKS ON THE ROSE. 



(Continued from page 232.) 



Many persons eat this fruit with pleasure when mellowed by the 

 frost. It was formerly much used as a conserve, the seeds being 

 taken out, and the pulp beaten with sugar. Gerrard says, " The 

 fruit when it is ripe, maketh most pleasant meates, and banket- 

 ting dishes, as tartes, and such like." 



The fruit of the rose is nothing more than fleshy urceolate 

 calyx, from whence the stigma springs, and it afterwards be- 

 comes the repositary of the true fruit or seed, after the manner 

 of the fig, excepting that the seeds of the hip, are divided by silky 

 bristles, or prickly fibres, which cause great irritation on the 

 prima? viae when eaten. 



It is the strong shoots of this species of rose-tree that the lar- 

 gest kind of garden roses are now grafted on; and by this means 



