applied to it by an old Scotch gardener, who told him that he had 
known it all his life by this name, because, said he, (clasping his hand 
round one of the branches near the root, and drawing it all the way to 
the top) “It is harmless and without a thorn from the root upwards.” 
“ Surely,” says our Reverend friend, “ there is not one of the genus so 
emblematical of Him who would not break the bruised reed, and was 
‘harmless.’” It flourishes in any common garden earth, and is most 
easily increased by layers. 
Derivation of THE NaMEs. 
Rosa, from the Greek Podoy, ropon, which, according to the poets, was first 
white, but was dyed by the blood of Venus, who received a thorn in her foot, 
when she fled from Mars, after he slew Adonis; or by the blood of Adonis himself, 
as Bion states in his elegy, 
Aipa pédoy ricre, ra dé ddxpva ray & rere. —Adonis, l. 66. 
CHAPMAN. 
Axprna, from Alps. 
SYNONYMEs. 
Rosa Atrina. Linneus, Species Plantarum, Edit. secunda, p.703. Willde- 
now, Species Plantarum, No. 26, Villars, Plantes de Dauphine, Vol. III, p. 
552. Smith, Rees’s Cyclopedia, under word Rosa, Miss Lawrance, Collection 
of Roses from Nature, plate 
