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R O S 



The fifteenth rises with prickly stalks eight or 

 ten feet bighj covered with a greenish bark, and 

 armed with fhort prickles : the leaver; are com- 

 posed ui live or seven oval leaflets, dark green 

 above, but pale nnderneath ; the borders fre- 

 quently turn brown am! are slightly Sewate ; the 

 peduncles are set with prickly hairs ; the calyxes 

 are serriipinnate and hairy : the corolla is of a 

 soft pale red, and not very double, but has an 

 agreeable odour: the heps are long and smooth, 

 li is a native of the South of France, fee. 



There are several varieties : as the Red Da- 

 mask Rose, the Blush Damask Rose, which 

 differ only in the shade of colour. 



The York and Lancaster Rose, which agrees 

 with the Damask in stalk, leaf, Sec, differing 

 only in the flower being variegated with white 

 stripes. Mr. Hail's Rose has the white stripes 

 more distinct : the flowers in these being let S 

 double than in several others, are frequently 

 succeeded by fruit, and have ripe seeds, from 

 which other varieties may be obtained. Ac- 

 cording to Parkinson, " sometimes one half of 

 the petal is of a pale whitish colour, and the 

 other half of a paler damask than common ; or 

 one petal is while or striped with white, and the 

 other half blush or striped with blush ; some- 

 times also all striped or spotted -over, and at 

 other times little or no stripes or marks, and 

 the longer it remains blown open in the sun, the 

 paler and the fewer stripes, marks or spots will 

 be seen in it. The smell is of a sweet Damask 

 Rose scent." 



The Red Monthly Rose, the White Monthly 

 Rose, which are so called from their continu- 

 ing to blow in succession during the greater part 

 of the summer ; not that thev blow in every 

 month, as the name implies. They are in every 

 respect like the Damask Rose; unless it be that 

 they are more full of prickles than that. 



The Blush Belgic Rose, which rises about 

 three feet high, with prickly stalks : the leaves 

 are composed of five or seven leaflets, which are 

 oval, hairy on their under side, and slightly ser- 

 rate, : the peduncles and ealvxes are hairy, and 

 without prickles ; the calyxes are large and se- 

 mi pinnate.; the flowers very double, of a pale 

 flesh colour, with little scent, generally in great 

 quantities. 



The Red Belgic Rose, which differs only in 

 having the colour of the flower a deep red. 



The Great Royal Rose, and the Imperial 

 Blush Damask Rose, 



The sixteenth spiscies has slender stalks which 

 trail upon the ground unless they are supported, 

 and it trained up to a pole or the stem of a tree 

 will use twelve or fourteen feet high ; thev are 

 armed with crooked reddish spines, and have 



small leaves, with seven oval acute leaflets, of 

 a lucid green, and serrate : the leaves continue 

 on all the year : the Cowers are small, • 

 white, and have a muskv odour. In their na- 

 tural place of growth thev continue in r-uccession 

 great part of the year, but their time of flower- 

 ing in this .climate is June. It vs a native of 

 Germany. 



The seventeenth has the branches with a great 

 abundance of prickles, which tall off on the 

 stems : the fruits are large aud pear-shar>ed. It 

 is a native of Austria and Italy. 



The eighteenth species has the young shoots 

 covered with a pale purplish bark, set with a 

 number of small prickles like hairs: the older 

 branches have but few thorns : the fruit is very 

 large: the flower is thick and double as a !>■!- 

 rose, but . so strong swelling in the bud, thSI 

 many of them break before they can b- fill! 

 blown i; and then they are of a pale red-rose co- 

 lour, between a ;x.i\ and a damask', with a <rer\ 

 thick broad hardtiniboneof short yellow tht 

 in the middle : the segments of the calyx are 

 quite entire : the smell is nearest a red rose. 



The nineteenth has yellow hooked prickles on 

 the stem, which is live or six feet high : the leaf- 

 lets seven, very fragrant, elliptic or subovate, 

 above smooth and wrinkled, underneath rust-co- 

 loured with resinous atoms or little dots : serra- 

 t tires glandular : the petioles also glandular and 

 prickly : the peduncles niuricatc and in corymbs : 

 the calyx glandular: the petals rose-coloured, 

 -white at the base : the fruit scarlet, muricate, 

 but sometimes smooth, farinaceous, insipid. 



The cultivated plant grows larger and more 

 erect : the leaves are bigger and much sweeter 

 than in the wild one, the rusty -colour of them 

 disappears, and the whole puts on a more vigo- 

 rous appearance : the sweet scent is supposed to 

 proceed from the gland. It is a native of most 

 parts of Europe. 



There are varieties with double flowers: as 

 the Common Double Sweet Briar, the Mossy 

 Double Sweet Briar, the Evergreen Double 

 Sweet Briar, the Marbled Double Sweet Briar, 

 the Red Double Sweet Briar, the Roval Sweet 

 Briar, and the Yellow Sweet Briar. 



The twentieth species, which is mostly deno- 

 minated the Moss Rose, from the moss-like pu- 

 bescence on the calyx, has the stalks and 

 branches closely armed with brown spine-. : the 

 peduncles and calvx are covered with long hair- 

 like moss : the flowers are of an elegant crim- 

 son colour, and have a most agreeable odour. 

 It is known to us only in its double state, and 

 the country to which we are indebted for it is 

 not ascertained. 



The twenty-first, or Musk Rose, rises with 



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