THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



pink, perish if transplanted to garden-ground 

 from the marshy banks of the rivulets of Vir- 

 ginia, of which the shrub is a native. 



Quitting the borders of streams and marshy 

 savannahs, we find in the forests and stony 

 districts the Rosa diffusa, of which the pink 

 flowers blossom in pairs early in the summer. 

 On the rising grounds of Pennsylvania, grows 

 the Rosa parviflora, a diminutive shrub, of 

 which the small, half-blown, elegant double- 

 flowers, slightly tinged with the most delicate 

 pink, constitute one of the most beautiful 

 species of North America, but extremely diffi- 

 cult of culture and propagation. On the out- 

 skirts of the Pennsylvanian forests, grows the 

 Rosa stricta, with flowers of a pale red ; the 

 Rosa rubifolia, the flowers small, pale red, and 

 flowering in clusters of three ; and, in South 

 Carolina, the Rosa setigera, the petals of 

 whose red blossoms are shaped like a reversed 

 heart. The Creoles of Georgia adorn their hair 

 with the large white blossoms of the Rosa 

 Icevigata, a climbing plant, whose long tendrils 

 are found interlaced among the most majestic 

 forest trees. 



The last rose adorning the Flora of America, 

 is the Rosa Montezumce ; sweet scented, of a 

 pale pink, solitary, and thornless. This shrub 

 abounds on the most elevated heights of Cerro 

 Ventoso, near San Pedro, in Mexico, where it 



