_ we think we do not err when we give the preference here to two stanzas 
of a longer poem than our pages will allow us to extract, from a 
volume, and from the pen of the author of that volume, (Mr. John 
Holland) called “ Memoirs of the Rose,” one volume, 12mo. London, 
“T love the rose,—it is a noble flower. 
In piri! rich, and opulent of leave 
And when her summer garland Flora weaves, 
ro sees no fairer r beauty in her sede 
one ites so redolent of perfume, flings 
: sweeter fragrance on the zephyr’s Whos 
I love the rose,—its presence to my eye 
Like beauty, youth, like hope and health appears, 
Recalling the gay dreams of early years 
And when'I smell its fragrance —— by, 
IT think of ame love, benevolen 
Which moral perks round life $ 5 thes dispense.” 
This species is very common in the alpine thickets of Switzerland, 
Savoy, Dauphiny, Austria, &c. flowering from June to August, and is 
among the number of 
—————. “ the beauties of the wilderness, 
Which make so gay the solitary place 
Where no eye sees them.” 
Well might Clusius exclaim, in reference to such plants, “ Non carent 
altissimi montes preruptique scopuli suis etiam deliciis.” <The most 
lofty mountains and most rugged precipices are not without their own 
peculiar charms.’ It has long found a place in botanic, but is not 
common in private, gardens. It is difficult to account for this neglect, 
since not only is it “simplex munditiis,” elegant in its simple ornature, 
but it enjoys the rare and envied character of being “the rose without 
a thorn ;” and Milton thought it worthy of admission into his garden 
of Eden, which contained 
“Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.” 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. For the opportunity 
of giving a representation of this desirable species of Rose, we are 
indebted to the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe of Bitton, near Bristol, who 
kindly sent us flowers in June last, and also fruit in the following 
autumn. This gentleman observes, that with him it grows about four 
feet high, and is amongst the earliest bloomers, and the most beautiful. 
He has long known it as Tue Rose or Suaxon, a title he first heard 
