1 M IN A OLOUCESTEWHIB1 GARDEN 



English word, and that it was not till after the tenth 

 century that the Latin row was applied to the flower, 

 retaining the 'brier' for the bush. In the Kpinal 

 glossary (eighth century) there is no roue, but there is 

 ' brear,' and rose first appear* in Archbishop .-Klfric's 

 glossary in the eleventh century. Then gradually the 

 'brier* was dropped, and both bush and flower were 

 rote, but they were still distinguished in Shakespeare 1 ! 

 time, e.g. 



'Of colour like the rrd ro on triumphant brirr. ' 

 1 From off thi brier pluck a while ro*r with mr.' 



Hoses grow to a great age. I have a Hank-iia on my 

 own house that is certainly seventy years old, am! may 

 be older, and I have no doubt there are many ro*c in 

 England very much older; and if we can lelieve the 

 legend, there is a rose at Hildcshcim, in Iwer Saxon v, 

 that is more than a thousand years old, the cathedral 

 being built for it and over it in A.n. M.">. 



Hoses have a light economic and medical value, but 

 their commercial value is very small, except to the 

 nurseryman. The roseWiM*! >f cnmmerce does not 

 como from the rose-tree, but from Hrazilian ami West 

 Indian trees of very different Uitanical families ; and 

 the brier-wood pipes, RO dear to smokers, are not made 

 from the sweet-brier, but from the white- heath (bmvi*re) 

 of the south of Europe. 



