JUNE, 109 



deus there. It appears to be, certainly, wild 

 in some parts of Syria. The Parisians are very 

 fond of this flower, and it is one which is most 

 commonly sold in their flower markets. The 

 French, indeed, prize the roses generally, and 

 it is an old custom in some villages of France, 

 to present, on a certain day in every year, a 

 rose to the cottage maiden who is thought, by 

 her conduct, to have merited the esteem of her 

 neighbours, and who for the following year is 

 termed la rosiere. 



Then, too, we have the numerous varieties 

 of the delicate China, or monthly rose, (Eosa 

 indica,) which sometimes half cover the cottage 

 wall, or grace the bush of the town garden. 

 But the dim air of the city is not good for roses, 

 and even these look pale and sickly if compared 

 to the country flowers, while our yellow roses 

 will not thrive at all near the smoke of a 

 crowded neighbourhood. The most beautiful 

 of this family of roses are the tea-scented, or 

 noisette roses. The China rose grows wild 

 alwut Canton, in China. 



The dark velvet petals of the Bourbon rose 

 {liosa Bourhoniana) render it much admired, 

 and its fragrance is remarkably sweet. We 

 have, too, some pretty roses, with their tiny 

 buds and little sprays of leaves, called the roses 

 de Meaux, and these are a variety of the cab- 

 bage rose. There are, besides, the white Scotch 

 roses, and the inaiden's blush roses, and the 

 yellow double and single roses, and that lovely 

 kind of briar rose, called by the Italians, Rosa 



