54 MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE ROSE. 



come a little sweet. Belanger, a French writer who traveled in 

 Persia in 1825, found in that country a rose whose fruit was very 

 agreeably flavored. The apple-bearing rose (R. villosa pomifera) 

 produces the largest fruit of all, and is the best adapted for pre- 

 serving ; but an English writer remarks, that the fruit of R. sys- 

 tyla and R. arvensis, although of a smaller size, bears a higher 

 flavor than that of any other species. Rose-buds, like the fruit, 

 are also frequently preserved in sugar, and pickled in vinegar. 

 Tea is sometimes made of the leaves of the rose, which are also 

 eaten readily by the domestic animals. 



The ends of the young shoots of the sweet briar, deprived of 

 their bark and foliage, and cut into short pieces, are sometimes 

 candied and sold by the confectioners. 



The Dog-Rose takes its name from the virtue which the an- 

 cients attributed to its root, as a cure for hydrophobia. 



The heathen deities themselves, according to Pliny, revealed 

 this marvelous property, in dream, to a mother whose son had 

 been bitten by a dog affected with this terrij^le disease. 



The excrescences frequently found on the branches of the Rose, 

 and particularly on those of the wild varieties, known to drug- 

 gists by the Arabic name of bedeguar, and which resemble in 

 form a little bunch of moss, partake equally of the astringent pro- 

 perties of the Rose. These excrescences are caused by the punc- 

 ture of a little insect, known to naturalists as the equips rosce, 

 and occasionally nearly the same effects are produced by other 

 insects. 



