CHAPTEK VII. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



HE name of the Rose is very similar in most 

 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 ; rosen, in German ; roose, in Dutch ; 

 rhosha, in Sclavonic ; ros, in Irish ; ruoze, in Bohemian ; ouas- 

 rath, in Arabic ; nisrin, in Turkish ; chabhatzeleth, in Hebrew ; 

 and gul, 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, rosa, 

 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- 



