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The Sultan Rose ; the Stepney Rose ; the Gurnet Rose ; the 

 Bishop Rose; and the Lisbon Rose. 



The fourteenth species has the stalks growing erect, and scarce 

 any spines; they rise from three lo four feet high : the leaves are 

 composed of three or five large oval leaflets, which are hairy on their 

 underside: the leaves of the calyx are undivided: the flowers are 

 large, but not very double, spread open wide, and decay soon ; they 

 are of a deep red colour, and have an agreeable scent. " Parkinson 

 gives the Red Rose the epithet of English, as this and the White are 

 the most antient and known Roses to the country, and assumed by 

 our precedent kings of all others, to be cognizances of their dignity, 

 and because the Red is more frequent and used in England ihan in 

 other places. The flowers, he says, vary in colour; some are of an 

 orient red or deep crimson colour, and very double, although 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 all for the most part with larger 

 leaves than the damask, and with many more yellow threads (sta- 

 mens) in the middle: the scent is much better than in the White, but 

 not comparable to the excellency of the Damask Rose; yet this r 

 being well dried and kept, will hold both colour and scent longer 

 than the Damask." 



There are several varieties: as the Red Officinal Rose; the Mundi 

 Rose, which has the flowers very elegantly striped or variegated 

 with red and white; in other circumstances it so perfectly resembles 

 the Red Rose, that there can be no doubt of its being a variety of 

 that; indeed it frequently happens that a Red Rose or two appears 

 on the same plant with the variegated flowers. 



The Childing Rose, the Marbled Rose, and the Double Virgin 

 Rose, which have great affinity with each other, according to 

 Miller. 



The fifteenth rises with prickly stalks eight or ten feet high, co- 

 vered with a greenish bark, and armed with short prickles: the leaves 

 are composed of five or seven oval leaflets, dark green above, but 

 pale underneath; the borders frequently turn brown and are slightly 



