R O S 



R O S 



Damask Provence, or Holland Rose, has its bark 

 of a reddish or brown colour : ihe leaves likewise 

 more reddish than in others, and somewhat 



. Ii usually grows very like the D 

 . and much to the. same height,: the I 

 ate of the same 'Jeep blush colour, or rather 

 somewhat deeper, but much thicker, broader, 

 and more double by three parts almost, the 

 outer leaves turni.-.g back, when the Bower hath 

 stood long; blown, the middle part itself being 

 folded hard with small leaves: the scent comes 

 •t the Damask Rose, but is much short 

 of it. 



There: arc several varieties, as the Red Fro- 

 Rose: the stem ami branches are not so 

 ureal as those o! the other, but greener, the 

 hark not being so red : the flowers are not so 

 lar^e, thick and double, hut of a little deeper 

 damask or blu>h colour, turning to red, but not 

 coming near the fullcolour of the best Red Rose: 

 nor is the scent so sweet as that of tiie Damask 

 Provence, but coming near that of the ordinary 

 Red Rose. It is not so plentiful in bearing as 

 the Damask Provence. 



The Blush Provence Rose, in which the stalks 

 rise from three to four feet high, and are un- 

 armed : the leaves are hairy on their under side : 

 the peduncles have some small spines : the seg- 

 ments of the calyx are semi-pinnate : the co- 

 rolla has five or six rows of petals, which are 

 large, and spread open; they are of a pale blush 

 colour, and have a musky scent. 



The White Provence Rose, which differs only 

 in the colour of the flowers. 



The Great and Small Dwarf Provence Roses, 

 called Rose de Meaux, differ from each other 

 in htlle except size : the smaller of the two is 

 generally known by nursery-nun and gardeners 

 by the name of Pompom Rose. It throws out 

 numerous stems, which rarely exceed a foot or 

 a foot and half in height; usually straight, rigid, 

 and very prickly i the flowers very small, and 

 distinguished by the brilliant colour of the cen- 

 tral petals, appearing in June. 



All the sorts flower from July to August. 



The thirteenth n-< * with prickly stalks about 

 three feet high : the leaves have three or live 

 leaflets, which are large, oval, smooth, and of 

 a dark green with purple edges : the peduncles 

 are set with brown bristly hairs: the segments 

 of the calvx are smooth and m- mi pinnate: the 

 flowers are very double, and of a deep red co- 

 . but Lave little -cent. It is a native of 

 China. 



The varieties are very numerous ; as the Dutch 

 Hundred-leaved Rose; the Blush Hundreds 

 Rose i the Singleton's lluudred-leaved 

 B (a, 



The Simrle and Double Velvet Rose, which, 



■ rding to Parkinson, has-lhc old stein co- 



v< id wnli a dark-coloured bark, but the voting 



shoots of a sad green, with few or no thorns: 



the leave a sadder green than in m 



-, and very often seven on a sialk : the 

 flower is single; or double with two rows of 

 petals, the outer linger, ol a deep red like 

 crimson velvet ; or more double, with sixteen 

 > or more in a flower, most of them equal : 

 they have all ie?s scent than the ordmai) red 



The Burgundy Rose, which is an elegant 

 little plant, not more than a foot or eighteen 

 inches in height. 



The Su| : the Stepney Rose : the 



Gurnet Rose; the Bishop Rose; and the Lisbon 



Rose. 



The fourteenth species has the stalks growing 

 erect, and scarce am spines ; th< 

 to four feet high : the leaves are composed of 

 three or five large oval leaflets, which are hairy 

 on their under sidei the leaves off the calyx are 

 undivided : the flowers are large, but not very 

 double, spread open wide, and decay soon ; 

 thev are of a deep red colour, and have an agree- 

 able scent. " Parkinson jgwes the Red' Rose the 

 epithet of English, as this and the White are the 

 most antient and known Roses to the country, 

 and assumed bv our precedent kings of all 

 others, to be cognizances of their dignity, and 

 because the Red is more frequent and used in 

 England than in other places. The flowers, he 

 savs, vary in colour ; some are ol an orient red 

 or deep crimson colour, and very double, al- 

 though never so double as the White; some 

 again are paler, tending somewhat to a damask ;• 

 and some are of so pale, a red, as that they are 

 rather the colour of the Canker Rose ; yet ,dl lor 

 the most part with larger leaves than the elamask, 

 and with uianv more yellow thread-, (stamens) 

 in the middle : the stent is much belter than in 

 the White, but not comparable to the excellent y 

 of the Damask Rose ; yet this, being well dried 

 anil kept, will hold both colour and scent longer 

 than the Damask." 



These are several varieties : as the Reel Offi- 

 cinal Rose ; the Mundi Rose, which lias the 

 flowers yerj elegantly striped or variegated uith 

 red and w bite : in other crcetiusluni i - ;i SO per- 

 fectly resembles the Red RoBej that there can be 

 no doubt of its being a \ a: lit 



frequently happens that a Red Rosa or two ap- 

 pear* on the same plant Willi the variega' 

 flow i i -. 



ling Rose, the Marbled Rose, and> 

 the Double \ -e, winch have great af 



fumy with each other, according to Miller. 



