214 THE ROSE. 



4 Illo Virgilium me tempore dulcis alebat 

 Parthenope, studiis florentem ignobilis oti ;' 



intimated an intention which he then entertained of 

 writing upon horticulture, and the rose in particular, 

 as cultivated in gardens at Paestum in Lucania, 

 which he mentions thus towards the end of the fourth 

 Georgic : 



' Forsan et pingues hortos quae cura colendi 

 Ornaretj canerem, biferique rosaria Paesti.' 



Ausonius, likewise a perfect amateur of the rose, 

 and who wrote upon it, an author, by-the-bye, that 

 I have not been able to lay my hand on, says, 



( Vidi paestano gaudere rosaria cultu.' 



The roses principally noticed by Latin authors 

 are, the rosa Damascena, or white rose of Damascus; 

 rosa Milesia, or red rose of two varieties, rubra et 

 purpurea; rosa provincialis, called also Batavia, or 

 the large Provence, which was first discovered in the 

 neighbourhood of Toulouse ; rosa paestana, or bas- 

 tard musk, which flowered twice in the year, in May 

 and again in September ; rosa moschata vel odorata, 

 the African and Asiatic musk rose ; rosa holoserica, 

 or velvet rose : there were also the hyberna, or early 



