70 THE BOOK OF ROSES. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE ROSE. 



THE following authors are to be consulted 

 concerning the progressive cultivation of the 

 rose. 



Among the antients, Herodotus, Aristotle, 

 Theophrastus, and Anthenseus; from which au- 

 thorities we learn that double varieties were 

 cultivated in their time ; among others, the Hun- 

 dred-leaved rose. Pliny has given a description 

 of several species; but singularly enough, omits 

 the celebrated rose growing in the neighbour- 

 hood of Psestum,* commemorated by Virgil. 



During the dark ages, botany appears to 

 have been wholly neglected ; and nothing has 

 reached us from that period concerning the 

 rose, except that it is expressly recommended 

 to cultivation in the Institutes of Charlemagne. 

 C Capitularium de Villis et Curtis). 



In the sixteenth century, botany became a 

 science; and the rose found an historian in 

 Lobel, who described and caused to be en- 



* In allusion to the " biferi rosaria Peesti," Lindley 

 mentions that the only rose found by Mr. Woods in the 

 neighbourhood of Peestum, was the Rosa sempervirens. 



