The History of the Rose. 25 



In 1799 Miss Lawrence published "A Collection of Roses from Nature," which 

 contained ninety-one coloured plates, including many of the most beautiful species and 

 varieties then known. In 1820 the " Rosarum Monographia," by J. Lindley, appeared, 

 in which many species besides sub-species are described, and thirteen of them 

 figured. This work is of a scientific character, and the system there adopted has been 

 followed more or less by many subsequent writers on the botany of the Rose. 

 Lindley's species number seventy-six, or one hundred and one if we include doubtful 

 species. About this time the types of the Bourbon and Noisette Roses appeared, 

 and in a very short period the varieties were increased and improved beyond what 

 the most sanguine could have anticipated. Loudon in the " Encyclopaedia of 

 Gardening," published in 1822, says, "The lists of the London and Paris Nurserymen 

 contain upwards of 350 names." .... " New varieties are raised in France and 

 Italy annually. L. Villaresii, Royal Gardener at Monza, has raised upwards of fifty 

 varieties of ROSA INDICA, not one of which has as far as we know reached this 

 country. Some of them are quite black ! others shaped like a Ranunculus ; and 

 many of them are highly odoriferous." With regard to those quite black, as none of 

 them have yet reached this country, it may be presumed the writer made this state- 

 ment on the authority of the Continental growers, whose vivid imaginations often 

 lead them to portray in too glowing colours any new production. 



In the Catalogue of Messrs Loddiges & Sons, 1826, no less than 1393 species and 

 varieties of Roses are numbered as existing in their nursery at Hackney, and there 

 is an additional list of 66 " Chinese with Varieties and Hybrids." Messrs Lee of 

 Hammersmith had also about this time a large number of varieties, and a little later 

 Hooker of Brenchley, and Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, had formed collections. 



In Sweet's " Hortus Britannicus," published in 1827, there are 107 species given, 

 and 1059 varieties, the greater portion of the latter being French or Gallica Roses. 



In 1829 M. Desportes and M. Prevost each published in France a Catalogue of 

 Roses. In the catalogue of the former cultivator above 2000 varieties are described. 

 These catalogues, with others which appeared in England and in France both before 

 and after this time, were calculated to infuse fresh ardour into the minds of the 

 improvers of this charming race of plants, and at the same time to spread a taste for 

 its cultivation. 



At the end of this volume I will set down a list or works on the Rose which I 

 possess, arranged according to their date of publication. (See Appendix C.) 



It may be thought reasonable that I should allude to the Nurseries in this parish 

 which have been so long famous for Roses. They gained considerable renown in the 

 time of my father, the late Mr. A. Paul, from the continual flowering of a plant of the 

 old double yellow Rose (R. SULPHUREA), which had become established on a west 

 wall about the close of the eighteenth century; flowers from which to draw were 



sought from various parts of the country. The plant produced them with such 

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