12 ADDITIONAL REMARKS ON THE HISTORY OF THE ROSE. 



" In the gardens of Kandahar, Samarcand, and Ispahan, the Rosa 

 arborea is cultivated in great profusion by the Persians. This shrub, 

 which attains a considerable size, is covered during the spring with 

 an abundance of white and scented blossoms. The Rosa berberifolia 

 is also common in these provinces. This shrub, differing so com- 

 pletely from every other species of rose that botanists experience 

 some hesitation in classing it among the number, has simple single 

 leaves, and yellow star-shaped flowers, variegated like a cistus at the 

 base with spots of deep crimson. The Rosa Damascena, transported 

 to Europe from Damascus by the Crusaders, affording to our gardens 

 an infinite number of beautiful varieties, adorns the sanely deserts of 

 Syria with its sweet and brightly-tinted flowers. At the extremity 

 of Asia, towards Constantinople, the Rosa sulphurea displays its 

 very-double flowers of a brilliant yellow. 



" The north-west of Asia, which has been signalized as the father- 

 land of the rose-tree, introduces to our admiration the Rosa centifolia, 

 the most esteemed of all, and celebrated by poets of every age and 

 country, with which the fair Georgians and Circassians adorn their 

 persons. The Rosa'ferox mingles its large red blossoms and thorny 

 blanches with those of the Hundred-leaved ; and the Rosa pulveru- 

 lenta is also observed on the peak of Narzana, one of the Caucasian 

 chain. 



" In the north of Asia, Siberia boasts the Rosa grandiflofa, of 

 which the corolla bears the form of an antique cup ; the Rosa Cau- 

 casea, the fruit of which is of a pulpy substance; and, still adjoining 

 the Caucasian provinces, we find a yellowish variety of the Caucasea, 

 of a dingy, unattractive appearance. Advancing towards the Frozen 

 Ocean, and beyond the Ural Mountains, grows the Rosa rubella, of 

 which the petals are sometimes of a deep crimson, but often pale and 

 colourless as the surrounding country. Still further north, flourishes 

 the Rosa acicularis, bearing solitary flowers of a pale red. Ten or 

 twelve other species grow in the Russian provinces of northern Asia ; 

 in particular, the Rosa Kamschatica, bearing solitary flowers of a 

 pinkish white. 



" In Africa, on the borders of the vast desert of Sahara, and more 

 especially in the plains towards Tunis, is found the Rosa moschafa, 

 whose tufts of white roses give out a musky exhalation. This charm- 

 ing species is also to be found in Egypt, Morocco, Mogadore, and the 

 Island of Madeira. In Egypt, too, grows the Rosa canina, or dog 



