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leaves of Eglantines. The Flowers come forth at 

 the tops of the branches, many together as it were 

 in an umbel, or tuft, which, for the most part, do 

 flower all at a time, or not long one after another, 

 every one standing on a pretty long stalk and are of 

 a pale whitish, or cream color, both the single and 

 the double, the single being small flowers consisting 

 of five leaves with many yellow threads in the mid- 

 dle; and the double bearing more double flowers, 

 as if they were once or twice more double than the 

 single, with yellow thrums also in the middle, both 

 of them of a very sweet and pleasing smell, re- 

 sembling musk. Some there be that have avouched 

 that the chief scent of these Roses consisteth not in 

 the leaves but in the threads of the Flowers." 



The color of the musk-rose is white, slightly 

 tinged with pink. 



EGLANTINE; ALSO SWEETBRIER (Rosa 

 eglanteria). This is a conspicuous adornment of 

 Titanids bower, and is as remarkable for its beauty 

 as for its scent. The pink flowers with their golden 

 threads in the center are familiar to every one. 



"The Sweet Briar, or Eglantine," Parkinson 

 writes, "is not only planted in Gardens for the sweet- 

 ness of its leaves, but growing wild in many woods 

 and hedges, hath exceeding long green shoots armed 



