Chap IV. FLORA 
Rofa Damfcena variegata elegantior. 
THe elegant variegated Damask Rofe is fomething like the Jatt de- 
{cribed, onely A fhoots arefhorter and redder, and the leaves 
{maller, the flowers fomething doubler, and often better marked 
than either of the former: this is by fome called Mrs, Hearts Rofe, 
Rofa Damajcena Provincialis. 
"Ls Damask Province Rofe hath longer fhoots and leaves than any 
L ofthe former, and ofa reddifh green colour , the Rofes are fome- 
what of a deeper blush colour than thofe of the ordinary Damask, but 
three times.as large, thick, and double, asall know that have any 
acquaintance with flowers, being now too common ; but were it as 
{carce and hard to be obtained as fome othersare, it would be of as 
much efteem asany whatfoever, the Rofes being very fair, and the 
fent good, — BY 2 ASot A Soe £453 ae t j 
? ae cee Rofa menfatis. * 143 ote J 
3 es moneshly Rofe isin all the parts thereof very like unto the 
Damask Rofe, itis {aid that in Ztaly it beareth feyen moneths 
in the year, but I could never find or hear of any truth that it ever 
bore flowers in England above three, that was, in Fuze, about the 
middle of Auguft, and towards theend of September, the Rofes are 
very like the Damask, but fomething more double, and not all things 
{o {weet, | 
Rofa Belgica, five vitrea, flore rubicante. 
4 te blufh pelgick Rofe hath bigger branches and fuller of thorns 
AL thanany of theformer, the green leayes thicker, ftiffer; andofa 
whitith green colour, the flowers grow many together on the ends of 
the branches, which are about the bignefs of the ordinary Damask 
Rofe, but very thick and double, and of a fine pleafant pale bluth co- 
lour and {weet fent: this is the greateft bearer of all the Rofes, and 
the diftilled water thereof is almoft as good asthat of the Damask 
fome calhit the white Prowince Rofe, and fome the Baravick Rofe, © 
_ Andthefeare thediverfities of the Damask or paler-colowed Re- 
fes; we thall now proceed unto the. ele dee and fet down fuch 
diverfities of them as are come to our knowledge, | 
: Rofa lutea fimplex. 
ope fingle yellow Rofe groweth as high as the Damask, the young 
Z thooisase full of {mall bain ess and of adark reddith ¢o- 
Jour ; the leaves are fmalland the flowers fingle, containing but five 
ves, of a pale yellow colour : itis but awilde Rofe, and onely e+ 
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