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remove it. The fertilising will take place without 

 farther trouble, and a fine hip full of seed will be 

 the result. To obtain seed from the Luxembourg 

 Moss, I need scarcely say that this operation must 

 be reversed. A wall is not always necessary to 

 ripen seed; for in dry soils and airy exposed 

 situations, the above Moss Eoses bear seed in 

 tolerable abundance. The treatment of the hips, 

 sowing the seed, and the management of the 

 young plants, as applicable to all, is given at the 

 end of the First Part. 



THE FKENCH EOSE. 



(ROSA GALLICA.) 



Rosier de Provins. 



THE French Eose (Eosa gallica of botanists) is an 

 inhabitant of the continent of Europe, growing 

 abundantly in fche hedges of France and Italy. 

 In the ' Florse Eomanse ' of Sebastiani, published 

 at Eome in 1818, this rose, Eosa sempervirens, 

 and Eosa canina, are said to be the only roses 

 growing naturally in the Papal States. It was 

 one of the earliest roses introduced to our gardens, 

 and is supposed by some to be the Eosa Milesiana 

 of Pliny, so named from its growing abundantly 

 near Miletus in Asia Minor : it has also historical 

 claims of much interest; for the semi-double 



