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season by watei-ing the plants with warm water as soon as the buds became 

 visible ; and Virgil sings of 



" The Pffistan roses with their double spring," 

 although less poetical botanists, who visited Paestum, have failed to meet with 

 autumnal roses, Anacreon gives a fabulous origin to the rose. In his f)4t_ 

 ode he tells us : — 



" "UTien Cytheraea, naked to the light, 

 "Waked from her Neptunian birth ! 

 To fill with love the cireUng earth, 

 Then, then, in strange eventful hour. 

 The earth produced an infant flower 

 By chance, upon a blooming thorn. 

 Such as the heavenly haUs adorn. 

 Some nectar drops in ruby tide, 

 Its sweetly Orient buds had dyed ; 

 The gods beheld the brilliant birth, 

 And hail'd the rose, — the boon of earth t 

 They bade them bloom, the flowers divine 

 Of him who shed the teeming vine. 

 And bade them on the spangled thorn 

 Expose their bosoms to the morn." 



1819. Its fabled origin, rejected, we may, with M. Boitard, reject also the 

 citatements which would give to the whole family an eastern origin. The rose 

 is found indigenous in one or other of its species in ever^' region of the earth ; 

 and no other product of nature has been found so obedient to the hand of 

 man in its cultivation. In their geographical distribution, Mosa pallinaria 

 is found at the foot of Mount Baldo in the Apennines ; Mosa Lyonii is a 

 native of Tennessee in America ; Rosa arvensis is found all over Europe ; and 

 the dog-rose, Rosa canina, prevails over Europe and Asia, and even in some 

 parts of America. Williamson foimd the Rosa hlanda among the icy moim- 

 tains of the northern part of the American continent, joint tenants of these 

 icy regions with the white bear, expanding its grand rosy corollae on its solitary 

 stem as soon as the sun had expelled the frozen snow from the vallej's, and the 

 Rosa rapa, var, Hudsoniana, displays its thread-like branches and numerous 

 corymbs of double flowers, of a pale rose-colour, under the Polar circle, on the 

 shores of Hudson's Bay. On the wild coast of Labrador, Rosa fraxvvfolia and 

 nitida are found, — small flowers, with heart-shaped petals. The marshy rice- 

 fields of the Carolinas produce some splendid roses ; but the hot moist 

 soil of the country is necessary to their growth, and they languish under 

 the hand of the cultivator in colder and drier countries. On the low 

 hilly ranges of Pennsylvania are found several distinct species, — itosa pajTi- 

 ■^ora among them, — a small but charming shrub, with delicate rose-goloured 

 •flowers, rivalling in beauty all other American roses. Further south, the 

 pretty Creole girls of Georgia decorate their raven locks with the large white 

 flowers oftheitosatey^z/a^a, whose long clasping tendrils twine themselves round 

 and ascend to the summit of the loftiest trees of the forest. The last rose of 

 the American continent we shall mention is the Rosa Montezumce. Its soli- 

 tary odorous flowers are of a pale red, its stem is without spines, and it was 

 found by Messrs. Humboldt and Bompland on the very loftiest peak of Cero 



