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perate regions of Africa, Asia, and America, but not of Australia ; and they 

 have been in cultivation in the Old World, for the beauty and fragrance of 

 their flowers, from time immemorial. As the culture of roses belongs more 

 to floriculture than to arboriculture, it will be found given at length in our 

 Encyclopedia of Gardening, and in the first edition of this work. All the 

 species may be propagated by cuttings of the roots, cuttings of the young 

 wood in a growing state, by layers, or by budding or grafting ; and they 

 will all thrive in loamy soil, dry and rich, rather than poor. The genus .ffosa 

 is in a state of confusion still greater than that which subsists among the 

 different kinds of jRiibus ; nor can it well be otherwise, when we consider 

 that the greater number of kinds in cultivation are garden productions, and 

 that the wild kinds differ exceedingly according to soil and situation, and have 

 been chiefly described by botanists from dried specimens. We have adopted the 

 arrangement in Don's Miller, with the exception of omitting the first section, 

 Simplicifbliae, now made a separate genus by Dr. Lindley. Where the species 

 arranged under a section are natives of different countries, it may fairly be 

 presumed, that there is at least one in each country entitled to be considered a 

 species ; or, at least, it may be convenient to do so, in the present state of our 

 knowledge. Nature, it is observed in the Nouveau Du Hamel, " appears scarcely 

 to have placed any limit between the different species of the rose ; and, if 

 it is already very difficult to define the wild species, which have not yet been 

 modified by culture, it is almost impossible to refer to their original type the 

 numerous varieties which culture has made in the flowers of species already 

 so nearly resembling each other." 



i. Ferbces Lindl. Mon. p. 3. 



Derivation. From/mw, fierce ; in reference to the branches being thickly beset with prickles. 



Sect. Char. Branches clothed with permanent tomentum. Fruit naked. The 

 plants contained in this section are a truly natural group ; they are low 

 shrubs, losing their leaves early in autumn, and are then remarkable for 

 their hoary branches, bristles, ancf numerous prickles. Their fruit is per- 

 fectly smooth, which separates them from the next section, in which the 

 fruit is downy. Sepals usually toothed. (Don's Mill.) Deciduous low 

 bushes, natives of Caucasus and Kamtschatka. 



ju, 1. /?. FF/ROX Lawr. The fiercely -prickled Rose. 



Identification. Lawr. Ros.,t. 42. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 565. N 



Synonymes. R. kamtschatica Red. Ros. 1. p. 47.; R. kamtschatica /3 feTox Scr. in Dec. Prod. 2. 



p. 607. ; R. echinata Dupont. 

 Engravings. Lawr. Ros., t. 42. ; Red. Ros., 1. p. 47. t. 12. ; and 



our fig. 551. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Prickles all alike in shape, and 

 much crowded. Flowers large, red. Fruit glo- 

 bose, scarlet. (Don's Mill.) A very prickly 

 shrub. Caucasus. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1796. Flowers large, red ; July and 

 August. Fruit scarlet ; ripe in September. 



Variety. 



* R. /. 2 nitens Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 824., 

 Scr. in Dec. Prod. ii. p. 607., has shining 

 pale green glabrous leaves, and pale crim- 

 son flowers. Deserving a place in collec- 

 tions on account of its singularity. 



_* 2. /?. (F.) KAMTSCHA'TICA Vent. The Kamtschatka Rose. 



Identification. Vent. Cels., t. 67. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 565. 



Engravings. Vent. Cels., t. 67. ; N. Du Ham., vol. 7. t. 10. f. 2. ; and our fig. 552. 



Spec. Char. t fyc. Prickles infra-stipular, falcate, large. Leaves opaque. Flowers 

 solitary, deep red. Fruit spherical, scarlet, less than that of R. ferox. (Don's 



