ROSE. 



ROSACES. Rosa Cenlifolia Rubra. 



E rosa centifolia has been already supposed to be the 

 kind celebrated as the rose of ancient Palestine. No 

 * flower has more varieties than the rose; and it is yet 

 capable of more extended forms. The modifications in 

 color, shape, and fragrance are almost endless. From 

 ancient times it has formed the symbol of beauty and of love 

 liness; and nowhere is it valued more than in the East. 

 Some of the most pleasing and charming varieties grow on the 

 borders of the Mediterranean and on the islands of that sea, 

 some slips of which I have succeeded in transporting to Ame 

 rica, which immediately commenced to grow on being put in 

 the soil. The method adopted was, to immerse the freshly-cut 

 slips having buds into long tin tubes filled with honey and seal 

 tightly. In this way were preserved cuttings from the finest 

 roses of the Egyptian Pasha s garden. 



The same species of flowers in the East have a more agree 

 able fragrance than in the West. Hasselquist saw the damask 

 rose, the common red, the cinnamon, and several other varie 

 ties, in Syria, which is said to have derived its name from 

 the abundance of its native roses. This is, however, one of 

 those flowers which, if it ever grew wild in Syria, has decreased 

 in number and variety and deteriorated in beauty. The wild 



