34 DOG HOSE. 



Eglantine of tlie older writers, which may at 

 once be known from all the others by its sweetly- 

 scented leaves ; and that pretty wild flower, the 

 Bnr net-leaved Rose, {Eosa spijiosissima,) which 

 is so frequent on heathy lands, and on chalky 

 or sandy soils. The flower is of a delicate 

 cream-colour, sometimes tinged with red, and 

 the shrub seldom more than three feet high, 

 and crowded with small dark green leaves and 

 sharp prickles. The blossoms are very nu- 

 merous, and the hips, which grow in autumn, 

 are very large, and purple or dark red in colour. 

 Children call them Cat-hips. The Rose is the 

 favourite flower of all lands. In former days, 

 when garlands were hung in churches, in order, 

 as an old writer says, to "■ attemper the aire, 

 coole and make freshe the place, to the delight 

 and comfort of such as are therein," the Rose 

 was a flow^er very generally chosen for the pur- 

 pose ; and one of the old books of the church 

 of St. Mary's at Hill, London, contains the 

 foll«wdng record, made by the churchwardens 

 during the reign of Edward IV. : — 



" For Rose garlandis, and woodrowe gar- 

 landis, on St. Barnebes day, x j <://' 



