R O S 



R O S 



foTincit from the tube of the calyx : the seeds 

 numeroub, ohlong, hispid, fastened, to the inner 

 side of the calyx. 



The species cuitivat&d are: \. R.liitca, Single 

 Yellow Hose 4 2. R. sulplnirca, Double Yellow 

 Rose; 3. 7?. i'Tanda, Hudson's-Bay Kose ; 4. 

 R. c'niiinviumea, Cinnamon Rose ; 5. R. ariwii- 

 sis, White Dog Kose ; 6. R. phupinvllij'olia, 

 Small Burnet-leaved Kose ; J. R. s[)iiiosissima, 

 Seoteh Rose ; 8. R. parv'ijlora. Small-flowered 

 American Rose; y. R. liidda, Shining-leaved 

 American Rose ; 10. R. Carolina, Carolina Kose ; 

 11. R. villusa, Apple Rose; 12. R. proviiniaiis, 

 Provence Rose; 13. R. ceiifijbliu. Hundred- 

 leaved Rose; 14. 7^ GalUca, Red Kose; 15. R. 

 ■ ihnnuirena, J)ama3k Rose ; lO. R. srmpcrinreiis, 

 Evergreen Rose; \1 . R.pumila, Dwarf Austrian 

 Kose; 18. R. turhinala, Frankfort. Kose; 19. 

 R. riii'iginosa, Sweet Briar Rose ; 20. R. tnus- 

 cosa, Moss Provence Kose; 21. /?. tiioschala, 

 Musk Rose ; 22. R. alpina, Alpine Rose ; 23. 

 if. semper ftotens, Deep-red China Rose; 24. 

 R. alba, White Rose. 



The first has weak stalks, which send out 

 many slender branches closely armed with short 

 crooked brown prickles : the leaflets two or three 

 pairs, ovate and thin, smooth, of a light green, 

 sharply serrate : the flowers on short peduncles, 

 single, bright yellow, without scent. It is a 

 native of Germany, &c. 



There is a variety termed the Austrian Rose, 

 which has the stalks, branches and leaves like 

 those of the Single Yellow Rose, but the leaves 

 are rounder. The flowers are also larger ; the 

 petals have deep indentures at their points ; are 

 of a pale vellow on the outside, and of a reddish 

 copper colour, orange- scarlet, or BarrJ colour 

 within ; are single, have no scent, or a disa- 

 greeable one, and soon fall away. It has some- 

 times flowers entirely yellow on one branch, and 

 copper-coloured on another. 



The second species differs from the preceding, 

 not ordy in the douhleness of the flowers, but 

 in having the leaflets simply serrate, not glan- 

 dular, pubescent and glaucous underneath ; 

 •v\hercas in that they are doubly serrate, glan- 

 dular and glutinous, and of a shining gieen co- 

 lour, the stipules lacerated ; the JVuits hemi- 

 spherical and glandular, which in the other are 

 subglobular and smooth : the prickles on the 

 stem are of two sorts in this ; a few being larger, 

 and many smaller. It is a native of the Levant, 

 flowering later than that, as in July. 



The third has the stems, when full grown, 

 unarmed; the younger ones, or those of the 

 first year, are armed with slender straight pric- 

 kles bent a little back at the top : branches 

 round, unarmed, shining, reddish : the leaflets 



commonly seven, oblong, sharply and almost 

 equally serrate, smooth : tlie petioKs smooth, 

 generall)' armed wiih one or two spinules. It is 

 a native of Newfoundland and Hudson's Bay, 

 flowering from May to August. 



The fourth species rises jhout four feet high : 

 tbe branches are covered with apurplisii smooth 

 bark, and have no spines, except at the joints 

 immediately under the lea\'es, where they are 

 commonly placed by pairs ; they are short and 

 crooked : the leaflets seven, ovate, serrate, hairy 

 on their under side: the leaves of the calyx 

 narrow and entire: the flower small, with a 

 scent like cinnamon, whence its name. But, 

 according to I'arkinson, the shoots are some- 

 what red, yet not so red as the double kind, 

 armed with great thorns, almost like the Eglan- 

 tine bush ; thereby showing, as well by the 

 multiplicity of its shoots as the quickness and 

 height of its shooting, its wild nature : the 

 roses are single, somewhat large, and of a pale 

 red colour. It is a native of the South of 

 Europe. 



There is a double variety, in which the shoots 

 are redder ; the flowers small, short, thick, and 

 double, of a pale red colour at the end of the 

 leaves (petals), somewhat redder and brighter 

 towards the middle. It is the smallest and ear- 

 liest of the double garden roses, flowering in 

 May. 



The fifth has round, glaucous, often maho- 

 gany-coloured stems ; with very long, thong- 

 like branches, bowing, with scattered, hooked 

 prickles, smaller than in the common Dog- 

 Rose : the leaflets five or seven, but mostly five, 

 ovate, pointed, smooth, simply serrate, glauces- 

 cent underneath : the petioles prickly : pedun- 

 cles three or five in a terminating cyme, (rarely 

 solitary) mahogany-coloured, covered with a 

 clanduiar roughness, not all exactly from one 

 point, accompanied by a few lanceolate bractes, 

 and each bearing a single white flower, like the 

 common Dog-Rose, but never red or blush- 

 coloured, and less fragrant: fruit oblong ; but 

 in ripening it becomes globose, and deep red : 

 the styles, as soon as they have passed through 

 the neck of the calyx, are compacted into a cy- 

 linder, resembling a single style, terminated by 

 a knob composed of the stiginas, which distin- 

 guishes it from the other species. It is a native 

 of England, &c. 



The^sixth species has been confounded with 

 what is commonly called the Scotch Rosej and 

 some think it is not distinct from that. In the 

 garden plant, according to Pallas, there are 

 larger and setaceous prickles intermixed, and 

 nine leaflets, the lower ones jailer. The flowers 

 are white, and the segments of the calvx entire. 

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