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them are light in colour. They include the quatre saisons 

 and the true York and Lancaster. The flowers are highly 

 fragrant, and, like those of R. centifolia and other species, 

 are used indiscriminately for the purpose of making rose- 

 water. The species is distinguished from R. centifolia 

 by its larger prickles, elongated fruit, and long, reflexed 

 sepals. 



R. FEROX. North Asia. This species bears flowers in 

 clusters of two and three together, terminating the branches. 

 The petals are white with a yellow base. The branches are 

 erect, and thickly crowded with prickles of unequal size. 



R. GALLICA. The French, or Gallic Rose. Europe and 

 Western Asia. This Rose forms a bushy shrub 2 feet to 

 3 feet high, and has been so long grown in British gardens 

 that the date of its introduction has been lost in obscurity. 

 It is doubtless the red Rose of ancient writers, but at 

 present the flowers may be red, crimson, or white, and 

 there are varieties of all intermediate shades. Several 

 variegated or striped Roses belong here, including Gloria 

 Mundi, a popular favourite often but erroneously grown 

 under the name of York and Lancaster. They all flower 

 in June and July, and, together with other kinds that 

 flower about the same time, are generally known as 

 summer or old-fashioned garden Roses. 



R. HEMISPHERIC^, (syn R. sulphur ea). Orient, 1629. A 

 bushy plant growing from 4 feet to 6 feet high, and bearing 

 large double yellow flowers. 



R. INDICA. Common China, or Monthly Rose. Intro- 

 duced from China, near Canton, in 1789, but the native 

 country is not known with certainty. The flowers of the 

 plant when first introduced were red and generally semi- 

 double, but the varieties now vary through all shades of 

 blush, rose, and crimson, and the plant varies exceedingly 

 in height, in its different forms 1 foot to 20 feet in height. 

 The Monthly Roses form bushes generally about 2 feet 

 high or a little over. The Noisette and Tea Roses, with 



