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: Rola Eolenteria flore duplici. 
T He double Eglentine onely differeth from the common fingle 
. dt wilde kind, im that the flowers of thisare double, compofed of 
two, and fometimes three rows of leaves, of a pretty reddith colour, 
the fcent both of the green leaves and flowers is the fame with the 
wilde kind, 
Allthefe (everal forts of Refes do bring forth their fair, fweer, 
pleafaiit, and profitable flowers in Fuze, and continue flowering all 
that moneth, and moft,partof Faly, except fuch onely whofe time 
is expreffed in their Defcriptions, 
The bet and mok efteemed are, firft, of thered Rofes' that called 
Rofa mundi, the Rofe of the world, Vitrienfis, the red Belgick Rofe 
the marbled Rofe, the Rofe without thorns, and the red Province Rofe: 
ofthe Damask Rofes, the cryftal Rofe, Mrs, Hearts Rofe, the blufh 
Belgitk Rofe, the monethly Rofe, and the Damask Province Rofe = 
of the yellow Rofes, the fcarlet Auffrian. Rofe, and the double yellow 
Rofe : of white Rofes,the blufh Rofeand the Damask Musk Rofe,T hefe 
are all excellent Rofes, and none of them would be wanting in any 
good Floriffs Garden, 
_»)Rofes ave increafed either by.inoculating the buds of them in other 
ftocks, or by laying down'the branches in the earth +. the beft ftocks 
tobe inoculated upon are the Damask, the White, the Francford, 
and the wilde Eglentine, the beft time about. Atidfomer,. or as foon 
as good budsicanbegotten, hon | an 
All ftocks of budded Rofes mutt be carefully kept from Suckers, 
and if the Buds be placed near the ground, after one years growth 
the budded lance may be laid in the earth to root, whereby it will be- 
come a natural Tree, one of which is more worth than three that are 
budded, for that every Sucker that comes from them will be of the 
fame kind, ;whereby they may be increafed ; but all Ro/es are not 
apt toyield Suckers, and therefore the {peedieft and moft certain 
way is, to lay*down the branches, putting fome old well rotted 
Dung about the place where they are laid, which will make them root 
the fooner, COMBE , 
All Rofes are hardy enough, and willendure the Frofts in Winter, 
-and the better the foil is you fet them in, the better they will thrive, 
and the fairer will be the flowers ; they are ufually difpofed up and 
down the Garden in bufhes, and under walls, and fet in rows or hed- 
ges, {upported and kept invon either fide, the feveral-coloured Rofes 
intermixed and well placed, blowing together, will makea moft gal- 
Jant and glorious profpeét, After they have done bearing, they 
muft be cut with the Garden-fhears fomething near, and toward the, 
Spring each branch cut again with a knife clofe to a leaf-bud, and 
* . -what 
