236 WILD FLOWERS. 



11 The queen, the garden queen, the rose, 

 Unbent by winds, unchilled by snows, 

 Far from the winters of the west, 

 By every breeze and season blest, 

 Eeturns the sweets by nature given 

 In softest incense back to Heaven ; 

 And grateful yields that smiling sky 

 Her fairest hue, and fragrant sigh." 



Hooker however asserts our claim to nineteen 

 different roses of our own, besides a number of 

 sub-varieties into which the common dog-rose (R. 

 canvna) has been separated. Two of these species 

 are peculiar to Ireland. These are the R. hibernea, 

 which grows only in the counties Down and Derry ; 

 and the R. dicksoni, which was discovered by Mr. 

 Drummond. In the whole are included three species 

 of sweet-briar; namely, the slightly scented R. 

 inodorata, the small flowered R. micrdntha, and 

 the true sweet-briar (R. rubiginosa). The roses of 

 Cashmere may raise visions of unrivalled beauty in 

 our minds, or the same roses, when creeping up the 

 walls of our homes, decorating our gardens, and im- 

 pressing on us the force of the old lines : 



" Oh how much more doth beauty beauteous seem 

 By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 

 The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem 

 For that sweet odour which doth in it live ;" 



are gems which seem unparalleled in value ; and yet 

 little less beautiful are our own native roses blowing 

 in some quiet country lane, or clothing the dry 

 sand banks with a spring-robe of beauty, and per- 

 fuming the whole atmosphere with their sweetness, 

 as does the pretty little white-flowered sand or 



