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have ori.eiiiated by bud-Tariation.'"' The common double moss- rose 

 was imported into England from Italy about the year 173j.^" Its 

 origin is unknown, but from analogy it probably ai'ose from the 

 Provence rose (It. centlfulia) by bud-variation; for the branches of 

 the common moss-rose have several times been known to produce 

 Trovence roses, wholly or partially destitute of moss : I have seen 

 cue such instance, and several others have been recorded.^" 

 Mr. Eivers also informs me that he raised two or three roses of 

 the Provence class from seed of the old single moss-rose;" and this 

 latter kind was produced in 1807 by bud-variation from the com- 

 mon moss-rose. The white moss-rose was also produced in 1788 

 by an o&set from the common red moss-rose : it was at first pale 

 blush-coloured, but became white by continued budding. On 

 cutting down the slioots which had produced this white moss-rose, 

 two weak shoots w^ere thrown up, and buds from these yielded the 

 beautiful striped moss-rose. The common moss-rose has yielded 

 by bud-variation, besides the old single red moss-rose, the old 

 scarlet semi-double moss-rose, and the sage-leaf moss-rose, which 

 " has a delicate shell-like form, and is of a beautiful blush colour; 

 it is now (1852) nearly extinct."" A white moss-rose has been 

 seen to bear a flower half white and half pink.*^ Although several 

 moss-roses have thus certainly arisen by bud-variation, the greater 

 number proliably owe their origin to seed of moss-roses For 

 Mr. Kivers informs me that his seedlings from the old single moss- 

 rose almost always produced moss-roses ; and the old single moss-rose 

 was, as we have seen, the product by bud-variation of the double 

 moss-rose originally imported from Italy. That the original moss- 

 rose was the product of bud-variation is probable, from the facts 

 above given and from the de Meaux moss-rose (also a variety of 

 R. ceiiti/olia)** having appeared as a sporting branch on the 

 common rose de Meaux. Prof. Caspary has carefully described*^ 

 the case of a six-year-old white moss-rose, which sent up several 

 suckers, one of which was thorny, and produced red flowers, 

 destitute of moss, exactly like those of the Provence rose (B. centd- 

 folia) : another shoot bore both kinds of flowers, and in addition 

 longitudinally striped flowers. As this white moss-rose had been 

 grafted on the Provence rose. Prof. Caspary attributes the above 



2^ T. Rivers, ' Rose Amateur's of Mr. Shailer, who, together with 



Guide,' 1837, p. 4. his father, was comerned in tneir 



^^ ]Mr. Shailer, quoted in 'Gar- original propagation. See ' Gard. 



dener's Ohrou.,' 1848, p. 759. Chron.,' 18o'2, p. 7o9. 



■"> ' Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. iv. " ' Gar.i. Chron.,' 1845, p. 564. 



1822, p. 137 ; ' Gard. Chron.,' 1842, ''< ' Transact. Hort. Soc.,' vol. ii. p. 



p. 422. 242. 



^' See also Loudon's ' Arboretum,' *^ ' S.hriften der Phys. Oekon. 



vol. ii. p. 780. Gesell. zu Konigsberg,' Feb. 3, 1865, 



■"^ All these statements on the s. 4. Sei also Dr. Caspary's paper 



origin of the several varieties of the in 'Transactions of the Hort. Congreas 



moss-robe are given on the authority of Amsterdam,' 1865. 



