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which its numerous white blossoms exhale during the autumnal 

 months. It is a native of Barbary, and grows wild in the hedges 

 and thickets in the kingdom of Tunis; and the Tunisians cultivate 

 it also for the sake of a highly odorous essential oil, which they 

 obtain from the petals by distillation. 



This rose has been found growing naturally in Spain by Robert 

 Moore, Esq. who sent seeds to this country. We presume it was 

 planted in Spain, when the Moors first overran the coast of that 

 country, 



Hackluyt tells us, in 1582, that we first obtained the musk rose 

 from Italy. It was cultivated commonly in the time of Gerard 

 and as it sends forth large umbel branches of flowers at the end 

 of each branch, in the months of September and October, it forms 

 an agreeable companion to the common Chma rose, which blos- 

 soms also plentifully at that season. 



The stalks of the musk rose are often too weak to support the 

 larger bunches of flowers that crown its branches. It therefore re- 

 quires a support to keep them from the earth, unless it is planted 

 with dwarf evergreens, that form a beautiful prop to these delicate 

 blossoms. 





THE YELLOW TLOSE—Lutea and Sulphur ea. 



The single yellow brier rose, is said to be a native of Germany, 

 the south of France, and Italy ; and the single orange-coloured 

 rose, bicolor, is an Austrian rose. 



That it was through these countries that we first became ac- 

 quainted with the yellow rose, there can be no hesitation in stat- 

 ing ; but they were originally brought from more eastern climates, 

 seems equally certain, since no ancient author we have consulted 

 mentions a yellow rose of any description ; and had it been a flower 

 created by the art of grafting, as was formerly imagined, we 

 should, ere this, have discovered the fact. Ludovico Verthema 

 tells us, in 1503, he saw great quantities of yellow roses at Cali- 

 cut, from whence we have no doubt, both the single and double 

 varieties were brought into Europe by the Turks, as Parkinson 

 tells us in a work which he dedicated to Henrietta, the queen of 

 our unfortunate Charles the First, that the double yellow rose 

 " was first procured to be brought into England, by Master Ni- 

 cholas Lcte, a worthy merchant of London, and a great lover 



