

. THE ROSE. 

Bieberstein asserts to having seen it growing 
on the Caucasus; and is the kind supposed to 
have been mentioned by Pliny, as a great favorite 
among the Romans. It can vie with all others in 
size, beauty, perfection of form and fragrance. 
In the humid air of Britain it blooms for two 
months in summer, and is found around almost 
every cottage; but with us a week in June dis-— 
plays every flower, and in hot weather they flower 
and bloom in a day or two. The common Cab- 
bage Rose is of a clear delicate pink color, and of 
several varieties. The Unique or White provins 
is of a pure white. 
Rosa muscosa, the Moss Rose, is also a variety 
of the Provins rose, which when grown in Italy 
loses its mossiness; color of various tints, of red 
and crimson. The white moss is much admired, 
and also the Bourbon moss, growing 6 to 8 feet in 
height. The Moss rose is made the emblem of 
voluptuous love, and the creative imagination of 
a German poet thus pleasingly accounts for this 
Rose having clad itself in a mossy garment: 
sorry I af the ft. a 

Beneath a rose-tree sleeping lay, 
That spirit in whose charge fs given 
To bathe young buds in dews from heaven. 


