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The fifteenth rises with pricklv stalks eight or 

 ten feet high, covered with a greenish bark, and 

 armed with short prickles : the leaves are com- 

 posed of five or seven oval leaflets, dark green 

 above, but pale underneath ; the borders fre- 

 quently turn brown and are slightly serrate ; the 

 peduncles are set with ])ricklv hairs ; the calyxes 

 are semipinnate and hairy ; the corolla is of a 

 soft pale red, and not very double, but has an 

 agreeable odour ; the heps are long and smooth. 

 It is a native of the South of France, &c. 



There are several varieties : as the Red Da- 

 mask Rose, the Blush Damask Rose, which 

 diHcr only in ihe siiade of colour. 



The York and Lancaster Rose, which agrees 

 with the Damask in stalk, leaf, See, differing 

 only iit the flower being variegated with white 

 stripes. Mr. Uait's Rose has the wliite stripes 

 more distinct : the flowers in these being less 

 double than in several others, are frequently 

 succeeded by fruit, and have ripe seeds, from 

 whicli other varieties may be obtained. Ac- 

 cording to Parkinson, " sometimes one half of 

 the petal is of a pale whitish colour, and the 

 other half of a paler damask than common ; or 

 one petal is while or striped with white, and the 

 other half blush or striped with blush ; some- 

 times also all striped or spotted over, and at 

 other times httic or no stripes or marks, and 

 the longer it remains blown open in the sun, the 

 paler and the fewer stripes, marks or spots will 

 be seen in it. The smell is of a sweet Damask 

 Rose scent." 



The Red Monthly Rose, the White Monthly 

 Rose, which are so called from their eontmu- 

 ing to blow in succession during the greater part 

 of the summer; not that they blow in every 

 month, as the name imiilics. They are in every 

 respect like the Damask Rose; unless it be that 

 they are more full of prickles than that. 



The Blusli Relgic Rose, which rises about 

 three feet high, with prickly stalks: the leaves 

 are composed of five or seven leaflets, \\ hich are 

 oval, hairy on their under side, and slightly ser- 

 rate: the peduncles and calyxes are hairy, and 

 without prickles ; the calyxes are large and se- 

 mipinnate ; the flowers very double, of a pale 

 flesh colour, with little scent, generally in great 

 quantities. 



The Red Belgic Rose, which differs only in 

 liaving the colour of the flower a deep red. 



The Great Royal Rose, and the Imperial 

 Blush Damask Rose. 



The sixteenth species has slender stalks which 

 trail up'iii the ground unless thev are supported, 

 and if trained up to a pole or the stem of a tree 

 will rise twelve or fourteen feet high ; they are 

 irm.ed with crooked reddish spines, and have 



small leaves, with seven oval acute leaflets, of 

 a lucid green, and serrate : the leaves continue 

 on all the year : the flowers are small, single. 

 w"hitc, an<J have a iiHisky odour. In their na- 

 tural place of growth they eontitiue in succession 

 great part of the year, but their time of Ifower- 

 ing in this climate is June. It is a native of 

 Germany. 



The seventeenth has the branches with a great 

 abundance of prickles, which fall off on the 

 stems: ihe fruits are lartre and pcyr-sliaped. It 

 is a native of Austria and Italy. 



The eighteenth species has the young shoots 

 covered with a ]>ale purplish bark, set with a 

 number of small prickles like hairs •. the older 

 branches have but few thorns : the fruit is very 

 large: the ffower is thick and double as a red- 

 rose, but so strong swelling in the bud, that 

 m:i4iv of them break before they can be full 

 blown ; and then they are of a pale red-rose co- 

 lour, between a red and a damask, with a very 

 thick bro.id hard umboneof shott yellow threads 

 in the middle : the segments of the calyx arc 

 xquite entire : the smell is nearest a red rose. 



The nineteenth has yellow hooked prickles on 

 the stem, which is five or six feet high : the leaf- 

 lets seven, very fragrant, elliptic or subovate, 

 above smooth and wrinkled, underneath rust-co- 

 loured with resinous atoms or little dots: serra- 

 tures glandular : the petioles also g'andular and 

 pricklv : the peduncles muricate and in corymbs : 

 the calyx glandular: the petals rose-co'ourcd, 

 white at the base: the fruit scarlet, muricate, 

 but sometimes smooth, farinaceous, insi|>id. 



The cultivated plant grows larger and more 

 erect : the leaves are bigger and much sweeter 

 than In the wild one, the rustv colour of them 

 disappears, and the whf)!e puts on a more vigo- 

 rous appearance: the sweet scent is supposed to 

 proceed from the gland. It is a native of most 

 parts of Europe. 



There are varieties with double flowers : as 

 the Comuion Double Sweet Briar, the Mossy 

 Double Sweet Briar, the Evergreen Double 

 Sweet Briar, the Marbled Double Sweet Briar, 

 the Red Double Sweet Rriar, the Royal Sweet 

 Briar, and the Yellow Sw.eet Briar. 



The twentieth apeeies, which is mostly deno- 

 minated the Moss Rose, from the moss-like pu- 

 bescence on the calyx, has the stalks and 

 branches closely armed with brown spines: the 

 peduncles and calyx are covered with long hairr 

 like moss : the flow ers are of an elegant crim- 

 son colour, and have a most agreeable odour. 

 It is known to us only in its double state, and 

 the country to which we are indebted for it is 

 not ascertained. 



The twenty-first, or Musk Rose, rises with 



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