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The twenty-fourth species in its wild state lias ovate leaves, 

 smooth and deep green above, paler and slightly hairy underneath, 

 unequally serrate and blunt: the stem and petioles villose, prickly: 

 the peduncles solitary, long, hispid: fruits ovate, smoolh, but more 

 frequently having a few slender prickles on them: calyxes smooth, 

 green, half-pinnate. It is a native of Europe, China, &c. 



According to Parkinson, there are two varieties of the White 

 Garden Rose; one attaining sometimes the height of eight or ten 

 feet, with a stock of a great bigness, the other seldom higher than 

 Damask Rose. Both have somewhat smaller and whiter-green 

 leaves than in many other roses, five most usually on a stalk, and 

 paler underneath; as also a whiter-green bark, armed with short 

 prickles. The - flowers in the one are whitish, with an eye of 

 blush, especially towards the bottom, very double, and for the 

 most part not opening so fully as the Red or Damask Rose. In 

 the oilier more white, less double, and opening more. Some have 

 only two or three rows of petals ; and all have little or no 

 smell. 



Culture. In all the sorts the increase maybe effected by suckers, 

 layers, or by budding upon stocks of other sorts of roses; but this 

 last method is only practised for some peculiar sorts, which do not 

 grow well upon their own stocks, and seud forth suckers sparingly. 

 Where more sorts than one are to be had upon the same plant, such 

 sorts only should be budded upon the same stock as are nearly equal 

 in their manner of growth, otherwise the strong one will draw all the 

 nourishment from the weaker. 



The suckers should be taken off in October, and planted out 

 either in nursery-rows, or the places where they are to remain; as 

 where they are permitted to stand upon the roots of the old plants 

 more than one year, they grow woody, and do not form so good 

 roots as if planted out the first year. 



The best method to obtain good-rooted plants is to lay down the 

 young branches in autumn, which will take good root by the autumn 

 following; especially when watered in dry weather; when they may 



