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as a mark of their good name and of the pleasant and cherished memories that they left 

 behind for their friends. 



FLOWERS: This rosebush blooms in June, and sometimes at the end of May. You 

 can get flowers in September if you take care to trim the buds before they open. 

 Gardeners raise the young plants in pots in a hothouse to get flowers at the beginning of 

 spring and even at the end of winter. 



RANGE: The country where this rosebush grows in the wild is unknown. 

 Theophrastus says for sure that it's on Mt. Pangaion where the inhabitants of Phillippi 

 [Translator's note: an ancient site in Macedonia] went to look for cabbage rosebushes to 

 bring home. But he went on to say that the roses were small and not very fragrant, which 

 makes one think that he was talking about a different species. At all events it seems clear 

 that this rosebush should be thought of as a distinct species and not as a cultivar. M. 

 Dupont noticed one of the plants whose flowers had very few petals. He collected the 

 fruit, planted it, and got a rosebush with simple flowers that differed from all previously 

 known species. 



NOMENCLATURE. According to M. de Theis [Translator's note: probably Baron 

 de Theis, 1765-1842, who published a botanical glossary in 1810.] the name Rosa comes 

 from the Celtic word rhos, which gave rise to almost all names for the rose in the very 

 oldest languages such as Greek, Slavonic, etc. Its root, rhoddox rhudd, means red in 

 Celtic. German, die Centifolienrose. English, the Hundred-leaved rose. Chinese, Ta-mui- 

 hoa. Cochin Chinese, Hoa-houng-tau. 



The MOSS CABBAGE ROSEBUSH, Rosa muscosa, Hort. Kew., has branches, 

 peduncles, and calices that are covered with a sticky nap that looks a lot like moss. It 

 adheres to the fingers when touched. The ovaries are oval-shaped. The thorns on the 

 branches and peduncles are thin and straight. The leaflets, three or five in number, are 

 oval and serrate. 



