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weak stalks to the height of ten or iwtlve feet, 

 covered with a smooth greenish b;irk, ami 

 armed with short strong spines : the leaflets 

 seven, liglit-green and serrate : the flowers in 

 larsie bunches, in f'orni of umbels, at the end of 

 the branches, are white, and have a fine musky 

 odour, appearing in July and August, and con- 

 tinuing ui succession till the frost stops them. 

 The stalks are too weak to <u|)|'orl themselves. 

 Tliere is a variety with double flowers. 



Theeditorof Miller's Diciioiuirv considers the 

 Evergreen Musk Rose of Miller to be the same 

 with this. 



The twenty-second species is alow shrub, with 

 reddish -brown stems, the lower half or there- 

 abouts of which is covered with straight awl- 

 shaped slender white not pungent prickles ; the 

 upper part is quite naked : the stipules ciliate- 

 glandular at the edge : the petioles hispid, and 

 glandular : the leaflets commonly seven, smooth 

 on both sides, ovate, biscrrate, ciliate, glandular: 

 the peduncles naked, unarmed : flowers solitary, 

 red, middle-sized It is a native of the Alps, 

 &e., flowering in June and July. 



The twenty-third has a height seldom exceed- 

 ing three feet : the flowers large in proportion 

 to the plant, semidouble, with great richness of 

 colour (dark red) uniting a most delightful fra- 

 grance, coming out in succession during the 

 greater part of the year, only more sparingly 

 in the winter months ■ the segments of the ca- 

 lyx leafy at the end, one larger than the rest: 

 the germs and peduncles sometimes, but rarely, 

 smooth. It is a native of China. 



The twenty-fourth species in its wild state 

 has ovate leaves, smooth and deep green above, 

 paler and slightly hairy underneath, unequally 

 serrate and blunt : the stem and petioles villose, 

 prickly : the peduncles solitary, long, hispid : 

 fruits ovate, smooth, but more frequerttly having 

 a few slender prickles on them: calyxes smooth, 

 green, half-pinnate. It is a native of Europe, 

 China, See. 



According to Parkinson, tnere art two varie- 

 ties of the White Garden Rose ;• one attaining 

 s«metimes the height of eight or ten feet, with a 

 stock of a great bigness, the other seldom higher 

 than a Damask Rose.- Both have somewhat 

 smaller and whlter-iireen leaves than in many 

 other roses, five most usually on a stalk, and 

 paler underneath; as also a uhiter-grecn bark, 

 armed with short prickles. The flowers in the 

 one are whitish,, with an eye of blush, especially 

 towards the bottom, very double, and for the 

 most part not opening so fully as the Red or Da- 

 mask Rose. In the other more white, less double, 

 and opening more. .Some have only two or three 

 rows of petals J and all have llitle or no smell. 



Culture. — In all the sorts the increase iTia.y 

 be cfte.-tcd bv suckers, layers, or by budding upon 

 stocks of other sorts of roses; \<\\\ this Lt-f method 

 is only practised for some peculiar sorts, which 

 do not grow well upon th.-ir own stocks, and 

 send forth suckers sparingly. Where more 

 sorts than one are to bt "had upon the same 

 plant, such sorts only should be budded upon 

 the same stock as are nearly equal in their man- 

 ner of growth, otherwise the strong one will 

 draw all the nourishment front the weaker. 



The suckers should be taken off in October, 

 and planted out either in nur.^ery-rows, or the 

 places where they are to remain ; as where they 

 are permitted to stand upon the roots of the old 

 plants more than one year, they grow woody, 

 and do not form so good roots as if planted out 

 the first year. 



The best method to obtain good-rooted' plants 

 is to lay down the young branches in aurunm, 

 which will take good root by the autumn fol- 

 lowing; especially when watered in dry weather; 

 when' they may be taken off" from the old plants, 

 and be planted out where they are to remaifi. 

 The seeds are sometimes sown in the autumn, to 

 produce new varieties, in beds of light mellow 

 earth, or in drills, especially for the Comnton 

 Sweet Briar kinds, and for raising hedges of them. 



Almost all the sorts delight in a rich moist 

 soil and an open situation, in which they pro- 

 duce a groater quantity of flowers, and those 

 much fairer, than when they are upon a dry 

 soil, or in a shady situation. The pruning 

 which they afterwards require is only to cut out 

 their dead wood, and take off" all the suckers, 

 which should be done every autunm ; and if 

 there are any very luxuriant branches, «hich 

 draw the nourishment from the other parts of 

 the plant, they should be taken out, or shorten- 

 ed, to cause them to produce more branches, if 

 there be occasion for them to supply a vacancy ;■ 

 but it is best to avoid crowdmg them with 

 branches, which is as injuriousto these plants as- 

 to fruit-trees ; for, if the branches- have not 

 equal benefit from the sun and'air, they will not 

 produce their flowers so strong, or in so great 

 plenty, as when they are more open, and belter 

 exposed to the sun, so as to have a more free" 

 circulation of air.- As the Moss Provence Rose 

 seldom sends out suckers, and does not sti ke very 

 freely by layerSj it is often incrcased'by budding 

 it upon stocks of the other sorts ; but the plants 

 are best when raised from layers. 



The best sort for flowering early and 'late is 

 the Monthly, next to which in flowering in the 

 open air is the Cinnamon, which is immediattly 

 followed by the Damask Rose, then the Blu-h,- 

 York, and Lancaster; after which, the Proveiice,, 



