12 ARISTOCRATS OF THE GARDEN 



(R. provincialis), and Cabbage Rose (R. centifolia) are 

 said to be the only Roses known to Pliny, and it must 

 be confessed that the distinctions between these so- 

 called species are not obvious. From earliest times 

 in the Occident, down to the end of the eighteenth 

 century, the Roses so much extolled by ancient writers 

 and by our ancestors were either wild species native 

 of Persia, Asia Minor, and Europe, or garden forms 

 derived therefrom. These would include, in addi- 

 tion to those aforementioned, the "White Rose (R. 

 alba), the Musk Rose (R. moschata), the Damask 

 Rose (R. damascena), the Cinnamon Rose (R. cin- 

 namomea), the Moss Rose (R. centifolia, var. muscosa), 

 Sweet Briar (R. eglanteria), Sulphur Rose (R. hemis- 

 phaerica), Austrian Briar (R. foetida), and the Aus- 

 trian Copper (R. foetida, var. bicolor). 



About the end of the eighteenth century the 

 Ayrshire Roses were originated from R. arvensis, and 

 early in the nineteenth century the Boursault Roses 

 were developed, through crossing the Alpine Rose 

 (R. pendulina) with R. chinensis, and the Scotch 

 Briars from R. spinosissima. Virtually all have dis- 

 appeared from general cultivation in the gardens of 

 Europe and North America. And all the species of 

 Rose indigenous in North America, Europe, and Asia 

 Minor have fallen into disfavor and are no longer used 



