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kinds of roses recognized by our countrymen are 

 thosc of Praeneste and those of Campania. Some 

 have added the Milesian rose, because of its brilliant 

 tiery colour, though it never has more than t-\velve 

 petals. Next after it is esteemed the Trachinian, 

 of a less brilliant red, and then the Alabandian, less 

 highly prized, with whitish petals ; the least prized, 

 having very many, but very small petals, is called 

 the prickly rose. For roses ditfer in the number of 

 their petals, in the smooth or rough nature of the 

 stem, in colour and in perfume. Those with the few- 

 est petals have five, but in other roses they are more 

 numerous, since there is one kind called the hundred- 

 petalled rose. In Italv tliis grows in Campania. but 

 iri Greece around Philippi, which liowever is not its 

 native soil. Mount Pangaeus in the neighbourhood 

 grows a rose with many but small petals. The 

 natives transplant it, improving the variety by mere 

 change of place. This kind, however. has not a very 

 strong perfume, nor has any rose whose petal is very 

 broad or large ; in brief, an indication of tlie degree 

 of perfume is the roughness of the bark." Caepio, 

 who lived when Tiberius Caesar was Emperor, 

 said that the hundred-petalled variety is never 

 put into chaplets, except at the ends where these 

 are as it were hinged together, since neither in 

 perfume nor in appearance is it attractive. There 

 is also the kind called the Grecian rose b)»^ our 

 countrymen, and by the Greeks the lychnis (lamp 

 rose), which appears only in moist localities.'' It 

 never has more than tive petals, is of the size of the 

 violet, and has no perfume. Another kind is called 

 Graecula (little Greek rose), the petals of which are 

 rolled together into a bunch. It never opens unless 



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