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any thornsatall ; the flowers are not fo thick and double, fpreading 
their leaves and ftanding forward from each other, ofa pale red co- 
lour, with part of them on the faces of a pale blufh, and the backfides 
of every leat wholly of whitifh pale colour, fo that the Refes when 
they come well (for fomerimes they will feem as blafted) are fais and 
very {weet; e 
R ofa Francofurtenfis. 
He Francford Rofe hath trong reddith fhoots full of thorns, wich 
large thick whitifh green leaves, the button under the Rofe-being 
bigger than that of any other; the flowers are thick and double, 
many times breaking in the bud, and feldom opening fair or fpread- 
ing their leaves fmooth, but curled and crumpled, of a bluifhred co- 
lour and {weet fent, like (but ftronger) to that of the red Rofe, 
Rofa Cinnamomia. 
“pus Cinnamon Rofe, asevery one knoweth, (it being as common ~ 
A as the firft ordinary red Ro/e) rifeth up with tall red thoots, «bears 
ing in May many {mall double Rofes, of apale red colour and faint 
fent, alittlelikeunto that of Cianamon, from whence it took the 
hame; 
itherto have cometo 
now we fhalliproceed to. the varieties of Damask 
or paler-coloured Rofes, proper to be handled in the next place, 
“Rofa Damafcena vulgaris. 
our knowledge, and now wef 
« 
" “‘Thefeare all the kinds of red Rofes that h 
: Te common Damask Rofe, although it be not fo ancient an inha- 
bitant of England as the common red Rofe, yet it is-as well 
known, and all the parts thereof, fo that it needeth no further de- 
{cription, : 
Rofa Damafcena ver ficalor. 
ae 
Rofa Cryftallina, 
£ Bi Cryflall Rofeisinall parts thereof like unto the laft,the onely: 
t difference is in the marking of the flowers, which in this aremuch 
fairer and better than in thofe of the other, being ufually ftriped, 
fpotted, and marked with pale white upon the Damask Rofe colour, 
throughout every leaf thereof, not differing in fent or other refpedts 
from the twoformer,  ~ 7 Ee 
