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weak staiks to the height of ten or twelve feet, 

 covered with a smooth greenish bark, anil 

 armed with short strong spines: the Ka;et> 

 seven, light-green and serrate: the flowers in 

 large hunches, in form of umbels, at the end oi 

 the branches, are white, and have a line musky 

 odour, appearing in July ami August, .mil con- 

 tinuing .n succession till the fro i stops them. 

 The stalks are too weak to support themselves. 

 There is a variety with double flowers. 



The editor of Miller's Dictionary considers the 

 Evergreen Mu^k Hose of Miller to be the same 

 Willi this. 



I ^ enty second species is a low shrub, with 

 reddish-brown stems, the lower halt' or there- 

 abouts of which is covered with straight awl- 

 shaped slender white not pungent prickles ; the 

 upper pan is quite naked : the Stipules cihate- 

 glandular at the edge : the petioles hispid, and 

 glandular : the leaiicts commonly seven, smooth 

 on both sides, ovate, bi serrate, ciliate, glandular: 

 the peduncles naked, unarmed : flowers solitary, 

 red, middle-sized. It is a native of the Alps, 

 Sec., flowering in June and July. 



The twenty-third has a height seldom exceed- 

 ing three feet: the flowers large in proportion 

 to the plant, semidouhle, with great richness of 

 colour (dark red) uniting a nicst delightful fra- 

 grance, coming out in succession during the 

 greater pan of the year, only more sparingly 

 in the winter months the segments of the ca- 

 lyx leafy at the end, one larger than the rest.: 

 the germs and peduncles sometimes, but rarelv, 

 smooth. It is a native of China. 



The twenty-fourth species in its wild state 

 has ovate leaves, smooth and deep green above. 

 paler and slightly hairy underneath, uncqiiallv 

 serrate and blunt : the stem and petioles villose, 

 prickly : the peduncles solitary, long, hispid : 

 fruits ovate, smooth, hut more, frequent] v having 

 a few slender piickle> on them: calyxes smooth, 

 en, half- pinnate. It is a native of Europe, 

 China, 8cc. . 



irding to Parkinson there are two varie- 

 ties of the \\ liitc Garden Hose; one attaining 

 sometimes the height of eight or ten feet, with a 

 stock. o£ a 'great bigness, tin other seldom higher 

 than a Damask Rose. Both have somew 

 smaller and whiter-tureen leaves than in m.iiiv 

 other roses, In ■- most usually, on a stalk, and 

 paler underneath; as also a « biter-green bail:, 

 armed with short piickjcst 'I he flowers in rhe 



are whitish, with an eye of blush, especii 

 towards the bottom, very double, and for the 

 most part no( so fully as the lied or Da* 



In the other more white, less double, 

 .md opening more. Some have only two or three 

 rows of petals; and all have little or no smell. 



Culture. — In all the sons the increase m.iv 



or h\ budding 

 oi . thi r sorts ofn 

 isoul\- practised for some pecuhai 

 do DO! gK)« well upon their own slocks, and 

 send fo«h suckers sparingly. Where more 

 s< rts than one are to hi had upon the same 

 plant, miiIi sorts only should be budded upon 

 the same stock as .in nearly equal in their man- 

 ner of growth, otherwise the strong one will 

 draw all the nourishment from the weaker. 



The suckers should be taken oft in October, 

 and planted out either in nursery-rows, or the 

 places where they are to remain ; as w lie re they 

 are permitted to stand upon the roots of thi 

 plants more than one year, they grow woody, 

 and do not form so good roots as if planted out 

 the iirst year. 



The best method to obtain good-rooted plants 

 is to lav down the young branches in autumn, 

 which will take trood root by the autumn lol- 

 lowing; especially when watered in dry weather; 

 when they may he taken off from the old plants, 

 and be planted out where they are to remain. 

 The seeds are sometimes sow n in the autumn, to 

 produce new varieties^ in beds of light mellow 

 earth, or in drilN, especially lor the Common 

 Sweet Briar kinds, and for raising hedgesof them. 



Almost all the sons delight m a rich moist 

 soil and an open situation, in which they pro- 

 duce a greater quantity of flowers, and those 

 much fairer, than when they are upon a drv 

 soil, or in a shady situation.- The pruning 

 which they afterwards require i> only to cut out 

 their dead wood, and take oft; all the suckers, 

 which should be done every autumn ; and if 

 there are any scry luxuriant branches, which 

 draw the nourishment from the oilier parts of 

 the plant, they should be taken out, or shorten- 

 ed, to cause them to produce more branches, if 

 there be occasion for them to supply a vacancy ; 

 but it is best to avoid crowding them yvith 

 hich is a> injurious to these plants as 

 to fruit-trees j for, il the branches hue not 

 equal benefit from the sun and air, tlity will not 

 produce their flowers so strong, or in 

 plenty, as when they are mon opi u, and beltei 

 exposed to the sun, so as to ha re free 



in. n ol air A- the Moss i'i >v 

 seldom si nds mil s uokers, and 

 freely by layers; it i^ often increased by budding 

 it upon stocks of the other sorts •, but the plant; 

 are best w hen raisi d from laj ■ i -. 



The besi sort lor flowering early and late is 

 the Monthlv, next to which in (1 n the 



ppen air i- the Cinnamon, which is mini 

 followed by the Damask Rose, then thi ; 

 York, and Lancaster; after which, the Provence, 



