CHAPTER VII. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



HE name of the Rose is very similar in mo?( 

 f^^ languages, but of its primitive derivation very 

 little or nothing is known. It is rhodon in 

 Greek ; rhos^ in Celtic ; rosa, in Latin, Ital- 

 ian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, and 

 Polish ; rose^ in French. Saxon, and Eng- 

 lish ; rose?i, in German ; roose, in Dutch ; 

 rhosha, in Sclavonic ; ros, in Irish ; riioze, in Bohemian ; oiias- 

 rath, in Arabic; iiisrin, in Turkish; chabhatzeleth, in Hebrew: 

 and gill, in Persian. These are the various names by which 

 the flower has been known from very early times, and a strong 

 resemblance can be traced through all. The Latin name, I'osa, 

 also forms a component part of terms used to designate several 

 other things. 



The name of rosary was given to a string of beads used in the 

 Romish Church to represent a certain number of prayers ; it was 

 instituted about the year 667, but was not much used until Peter 

 the hermit excited the Christian nations to the Crusade, about 

 1096. Dominique, a Romish saint, established, in 1207, the 

 brotherhood of the Rosary, and the festival of the Rose was in- 

 stituted in 1571 by Pope Pius V., in thanksgiving for the victory 

 gained by the Christians over the Turks at Lepante. Subse- 



