2 THE SUMMER EOSE GARDEN. 



Sunday bouquet of the respectable farm-servant 

 and cottager. 



The groves of Mount Caucasus are said to be 

 its native places of growth, and also Languedoc 

 and Provence; but the claims of these latter have 

 i b$eu, disputed^ I lately wrote to a very old rose 

 amateur in^Frarice for information on this point. 

 > J3e iiifo^m^li^ that, the species with single flowers 

 'is found in a wild state in the southern provinces; 

 it is therefore very probable that it was called the 

 Provence Rose from growing more abundantly in 

 that province : it has now, however, quite a dif- 

 ferent name in France, for it is called the " Rose 

 a Cent Feuilles/ from the botanical name, Rosa 

 centifolia, or Hundred-leaved Rose. I must here 

 confess that, when I was a young rose-fancier, 

 this name often misled me, as I was very apt to 

 think that it referred to the Scotch and other 

 small and thickly-leaved roses, not for a moment 

 supposing that the term was applied to the petals 

 or flower-leaves. 



Hybrid roses, between this and Rosa gallica, 

 are called Provence Roses by the French amateurs 

 of the present day. Our Provence, or Cabbage, 

 Rose is exceedingly varied in the form and dis- 

 position of its petals : the first in the catalogue, 

 Anemoniflora, has those in the centre of the flower 

 imperfect and partially fimbriated, giving it some- 

 thing the appearance of a semi-double anemone ; 

 whence its name. 



