ON THE ROSE. 283 



Mr Rossig, who has lately published a work on roses, and with 

 good coloured figures, says, that the moss rose is found on the 

 Alps. But this information comes rather late, as it is improbable 

 that a plant of such a size and singular beauty should have escap- 

 ed the penetrating eyes of the various botanists who have herba- 

 lized so frequently on these mountains, as not to have left a spe- 

 cies of grass or even moss unrecorded. 



The moss rose is propagated by layers or suckers which it sends 

 up plentifully when growing in rich light garden mould that » 

 rather moist than over dry. When the branches are laid down 

 they should be slightly bent so as to crack the bark, whicnwill 

 cause them to take root sooner. This beautiful rose is also in- 

 creased by budding upon stocks of the other sorts, which is ge- 

 nerally performed in the month of May ; but these plants are 

 not so durable as those raised by layers. 



THE HUNDRED-LEAVED KOSE-tfosa Centifolia. 



This is the rose which painters chuse to represent Love and 

 Hvmen. It is certainly a fine flower, being very double and of 

 a deep crimson colour; but the perfume is very weak and the 

 petals do not hang so loose and gracefully as in many other spe- 

 c es and it has, from the regularity of its petf^een compared 

 tTI'rose made by a turner, and there called Elos quasi torna- 



tus. 



This species of rose, which has become the Parent of a most nu- 

 merous variety, is a native of the mountains lying between 41 and 

 ^degrees of north latitude, if we may trust to the best an lent 

 naturlrhistorian that ever wrote on plants. Phny says that the 

 roes which grow about Campania, in Italy, and near Phihppi, 

 Z Greece are so double, that they have a hundred leaves, and are 

 before called Centifolia. « However," says the author, these 

 o Is do not bring forth these hundred-leaved roses naturally, for 

 t the mountain Pang^us, near adjoining upon which they grow 

 naturally, but when transplanted into the neighbourhood of Phi- 

 Tppi they become finer flowers than when on their native moun- 

 tain f and he adds, that « these very double roses are not so 



Kwr'et as others. . cm-ii 



This author tells us, that Ceepio who lived in the time of ttbenu., 



