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1 6. Rofa lutea /implex. The fingle yellow Rofe. 



This (ingle yellow Rofe is planted rather for variety then any other good vfc. It 

 often groweth to a good height, his ftemme being great and wooddy, with few or no 

 prickes vpon the old wood, but with a number ot fmall prickes like haires, thickc fet, 

 vpon the younger branches, of a darke colour fomewhat reddifh, the barke of the 

 young fhootes being of a fad greene reddifh colour : the leaucs of this Rofe bufh are 

 1 mailer, rounder pointed, of a paler greene colour, yet finely fnipt about the edges, 

 and more in number, that is, feuen or nine on a ftalke or ribbe, then in any other Gar- 

 den kinde, except the double of the fame kinde that followeth next : the flower is a 

 fmall iingle Rofe, confifting of fiue leaues, not fo large as the (ingle Spanifh Muske 

 Role, but fomewhat bigger then the Eglantine or fweete Briar Rofe, of a fine pale yel- 

 low colour, without any great fent at all while it is frefh, but a little more, yet fmall 

 and weake when it is dryed. 



17. Rofa lutea multiplex Jiue Jtore pleno. 

 The double yellow Rofe. 



The double yellow Rofe is of great account, both for the rarity, and doublenefle of 

 the flower, and had it fent to the reft, would of all other be of higheft efteeme. The 

 ftetnme or ftocke, the young fhoots or branches, the fmall hairy prickes, and the fmall 

 winded leaues, are in all parts like vnto the former fingle kinde; the chiefeft difference 

 conlilteth in the doublenefTe of the flower or Rofe, which is fo thicke and double, 

 that very often it breaketh out on one' fide or another, and but a few of them abiding 

 whole and faire in our Countrey, the caufe whereof wee doe imagine to bee the 

 much moifture of our Countrey, and the time of flowring being fubiecl to much 

 raine and Ihowers; many therefore doe either plant it againft a wall, or other wayes 

 defend it by couering : againe, it is fo plentiful! in young fhootes or branches, as alfo 

 in flowers at the toppe of euery branch, which are fmall and weake for the moft part, 

 that they are not able to bring all the flowers to ripenefTe ; and therefore moft of them 

 fall or wither away without comming to perfection (the remedy that many doe vfe 

 for this inconuenience laft recited is, that they nippe away moft of the buds, leauing 

 but ibine few vpon it, that fo the vigour of the plant may be collected into a few flow- 

 ers, whereby they may the better come to perfection, and yet euen thus it is hardly 

 effected) which are of a yellowifh greene colour in the bud, and before they be blowne 

 open, but then are of a faire yellow colour, very full of leaues, with many fhort haires 

 rather then leaues in the middle, and hauing ftiort, round, greene, fmooth buttons, al- 

 moft flat vnder them : the flower being faire blowne open, doth fcarce giue place for 

 largenefle, thicknefle, and doublenefle, vnto the great Prouence or Holland Rofe. 

 This Rofe bufh or plant is very tender with vs here about London, and will require 

 fome more care and keeping then the Iingle of this kinde, which is hardy enough ; for 

 I haue loft many my felfe, and I know but a few about this towne that can nourfe it vp 

 kindly, to beare or fcarce to abide without perilhing ; but abideth well in euery free 

 aire of all or the moft parts of this Kingdome : but (as I heare) not fo well in the North. 





1 8. Rofa Mofchata Jimplex Gf multiplex. 

 The Muske Rofe fingle and double. 



The Muske Rofe both fingle and double, rife vp oftentimes to a very great height, 

 that it ouergroweth any arbour in a Garden, or being fet by an houfe fide, to bee ten 

 or twelue foote high, or more, but more efpecially the fingle kinde, with many green 

 farre fpread branches, armed with a few fharpe great thornes, as the wilder forts of 

 Rofes are, whereof thefe are accounted to be kindes, hauing fmall darke greene leaues 

 on them, not much bigger then the leaues of Eglantine : the flowers come forth at the 

 toppes of the branches, many together as it were in an vmbell or tuft, which for the 

 moft part doe flower all at a time, or not long one after another, euery one (landing 

 on a pretty long ftalke, and are of a pale whitifti or creame colour, both the fingle and 



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