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amongst us; the Rose of Damascus, which has 
much of their blood in its veins, was brought to 
France itis said by the Count De Brie, and the 
neighborhood of Brie, Conté Robert, is still the 
great field from which France supplies Europe 
and America with rose-trees. The old English 
Rose was a daughter or cousin to the Provence 
Rose. Their Portland itself is a species of Cab- 
bage Rose, Centfewilles—what rendered it famous 
was its flowering twice. Where did the Dutch 
find the true hundred-petaled Rose? Perhaps, 
like us, they got it from the Moors in Spain, or the 
merchants of Smyrna. Wherever they obtained 
the original, it was their art which developed 
all its beauties. 
Till nearly the end of the reign of Louis the 
XIV the gardens of Europe depended upon the 
same source—improving the known varieties by 
grafting, without raising seedlings, and making 
searcely any new acquisitions. In 1735 the Fairy 
Rose, Pompon, was discovered in a wood near 
Dijon; it was not of much beauty then. The 
Moss Rose, issue of the Cabbage Rose, appeared 
about the same time. It is thought that Miller, 


