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found fully deocribed in the page* of Rivers and the 

 I>ean of Rochester. But there arc three double roe 

 that are such special favourite* with me for different 

 reasons that I must nay some little about them, One 

 is the old cabbage n>sc, a n*se so much neglected that 

 .i few yearn ago it could only he found in a few old 

 garden*, and in cottage gardens. Yet it is a rose of 

 a wonderful scent which no other n*** ha*. and its 

 historical intercut ut very great. Not only is it the 

 red rufte of KngUnd and the ' provincial rose ' of 

 H.unlrt, out it is probably the oldest cultivated 

 !*' we have, so old that iu native country it 

 unknown. One of it* names with us is the hundred- 

 leafed HMW, an<l under thai name it was recorded by 

 Theophrastus and I'liny (** %^ /-mir a ai aAotv7u 

 *aToTa^>i AAa Thcoph., ( Vn/i/u/iiiiii f>vjMf, I'lin. ). It 

 in the jwirent <f the inoM m*es and of the jni|tone, 

 or *l* M(>\us t and of many other* now gone out of < ulti 

 vation. A *econd favourite ilouble, or semi double, rose 

 is the York and Lancaster, of which there arc two 

 kinds ; one a very old ro*c, in whirh the {totals are 

 ioinetime* white and sometimes pink, and sometime* 

 white and pink in the itame Mower. Thin in without 

 doubt the ' rote* damaaked, rel and white/ the rote 

 'nor red nor white had stolen of lth ' >f Shake*j>eare t 

 and it i* the /. ivri^o//T of the oll !otanical writers. 



