

42 THE ROSE. 





The China or Bengal Rose sent to the Botanic 
garden at Kew, 1780, from Canton by a botanist 
named:Ker, did not reach France-till the year 1800. 
In addition to the interest excited by his seed- 
lings, the attention of the rose-growers is eagerly 
directed to the accidental varieties produced by 
what is called a “sport,” or a branch losing the 
habit of the plant on which it grows, and assum- 
ing new specific characters. In this way the Moss 
unique was originated at Clifton, and the beau- 
tiful Rose cristata in Switzerland; and more 
recently the charming Tea-rose Isabella sprunt in 
North Carolina. The Ayrshire roses were chiefly 
obtained from seed at Dundee in Scotland, and 
the yellow sweet-briar at Pitmaston. To enter 
into the origin of even the finer modern varieties 
would however be an endless task. The most 
scientific work which has appeared in England on 
Roses is the Rose Monographia of Prof. Lindley, 
1819, in which above a hundred species and sub- 
species are described. 
In France, Redonté and Thory published a 
splendid work in folio, entitled “Les Roses,’’ eon- 
taining plates of the species and varieties of this 


