R O S 



R O S 



Damask Provence, or Holland Rose, has its bark 

 of a recklish or brown colour : ibe leaves likewise 

 more reddish than in others, and somewhat 

 larger. It usually grows verv like the Damask 

 Rose, and much to the same height : the showers 

 are of the same deep blush colour, or rather 

 somewhat deeper, but much thicker, broader, 

 and more double by three parts alniost, the 

 outer leaves turning back, when the- flower hath 

 stood long blown, the nnddle part itself being 

 folded hard with small leaves: the scent comes 

 nearest the Damask Rose, but is much short 

 of it. 



There are several varieties, as the Red Pro- 

 vence Rose : the stem and branches are not so 

 great as those of the other, but greener, the 

 Bark not being sd red ; the flowers are not so 

 large, thick and double, but of a little deeper 

 damask or blush colour, turning to red, but not 

 coming near the fullcolour of the best Red Rose: 

 nor is the scent so sweet as that of the Damask 

 Provence, but coming neat that of the ordinary 

 Red Rose. It is not so plentiful in bearing as 

 the Damask Provence. 



The Blush Provence Rose, in which the stalks 

 rise from three to four feet high, and are un- 

 armed : the leaves are hairy on their under side : 

 the j)edunclcs have some small spines : the seg- 

 ments of the calyx are semi-pinnate: the co- 

 rolla has five or six rows of petals, which are 

 Urge, and spread open ; they are of a pale blush 

 colour, and have a musky scent. 



The White Provence Rose, which differs only 

 in the colour of the flowers. 



The Great and Small Dwarf Provence Roses, 

 called Rose de Aleaux,. differ from each other 

 in little except size : the smaller of the two is 

 generally known bv nursery-men. and gardeners 

 by the name of Pom pone Rose. It throws out 

 numerous stems, which rarely exceed a foot or 

 a foot and half in height; usually straight, rigid, 

 and very prickly : the flowers very small, and 

 distinguished by the brilliant colour of the cen- 

 tral petals, appeariuti ni June. 



Alltlic sorts flower from July to August. 



The thirteenth rises with prickly stalks about 

 three feet high: the leaves have three or live 

 leaflets, which are large, oval, snrooih, and of 

 a dark green with purple edijes : the peduncles- 

 are set with brown bristly hairs: the segments 

 of the calyx are smooth and semipinnale: the, 

 flowers are very double, and of a deep red co- 

 lour, but have hitle scent. It is a native of 

 China. 



The varieties are very numerous ; as the Dutch 

 Hundred-leaved Rose; the Blush iJimdred- 

 leaved Rose; the Singleton's Hundred-leaved, 

 Ho^e. 



The Single and Double Velvet Rose, which, 

 according to Parkinson, has the old stem co-. 

 veied with a dark-coloured bark, but the young 

 shoots of a sad green, with few or no thorns: 

 the leaves are of a sadder green than in most 

 roses, and very often seven on a stalk : the 

 flower is single; or double with two rows of 

 petals, the outer larger, of a deep red like 

 crimson velvet ; or more double, with sixteen 

 petals or more in a flower, most of them equal : 

 they have all less scent than the ordinary re^; 

 Rose. 



The Burgundy Rose, which is an elegant 

 little plant, not more than a foot or eighteen 

 inches in height. 



Tbe Sultan Rose; the Stepney Rose ; the 

 Gurnet Rose; the Bishop Rose; and the Lisbon 

 Rose. 



The fourteenth species has tbe stalks growing, 

 erect, and scarce any spines; thev rise from three- 

 to four feet hitrh : the leaves are composed of 

 three or five large oval leaflets, which are hairy 

 on their under side: the leaves of tbe calyx aj-e 

 undivided : the flowers are large, but not very 

 double, spread open wide, and decay soon;, 

 they are of a deep red colour, and have an agree- 

 able scent. "Parkinson gives the Red Rose the 

 epithet of English, as this and the White are the- 

 most antient and known Roses to the country, 

 and assumed by our precedent kings of all 

 others, to be cognizances of their dignity, and 

 because the Red is more frequent and used ill' 

 England than in other places. The flowers, fie 

 says, vary in colour ; some are of an orient red 

 or deep crimson colour, and verv double, al-: 

 though never so double as the White; some 

 again are paler, tending some.\yhat to a damask ; 

 and some are of so pale a red, as that they are 

 rather the colour of the Canker Rose ; yet all for- 

 the most part with larger leaves than the damaski, 

 and with many more yellow threads (stamens) 

 ill tbe middle : the scent is much belter than iiij 

 the While, but not conipaiable to tire excellency 

 of the Damask Rose ; vet this, being well dried 

 and kept, will hold both colour and scent longer 

 than tlie Damask." ,,i,, 



I'here are several varieties : as the Rcc) Offi- 

 einalliiose; the Mundi Rose, which has the 

 flowers very elegantly striped or varicgated,-uith 

 red and white ; in other circumstances it so per- 

 fectly resembles the Red Rose, that there can be 

 no doubt of itb being a variety of that ; indeed it 

 frequently ha|)pens that a Red Rose or two ap- 

 pears on the same plant with the variegated 

 flowers. 



The Childing Rose, the Marbled Rose, and ■ 

 the Double Virgin Rose, which have great fit. 

 linity with each other, according. to Miller. ■ ,',- . 



