8 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



freely as those that are pure: but I shall have 

 occasion to notice many exceptions to this, in 

 giving instructions for raising new roses from 

 seed: these instructions and hints, with the 

 names of the best seed-bearing roses, will be 

 given at the end of each article, and they will, 

 I hope, form a valuable addition to this work. 



THE MOSS ROSE. 



(EOSA CENTIFOLIA MUSCOSA.) 



The Moss Eose, or Mossy Provence Eose, is 

 most probably an accidental sport or seminal 

 variety of the common Provence Eose, as the Old 

 Double Moss Eose, which was introduced to this 

 country from Holland in 1596, is the only one 

 mentioned by our early writers on gardening. If 

 it had any claims to be ranked as a botanical spe- 

 cies*, the single-flowering Moss Eose would have 

 been the first known and described; but the 

 Single Moss, as compared with the Double, is a 

 new variety. Some few years since a traveller 

 in Portugal mentioned that the Moss Eose grew 



* Miller says, with a most remarkable simplicity, that he 

 thinks it must be a distinct species, as it is so much more difficult 

 of propagation than the common Provence Rose. 



