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perate regions of Africa, Asia, and America, but not of Australia; and they 
have been in cultivation in the Old World, for the beauty and fragrance of 
their flowers, from time immemorial. As the culture of roses belongs more 
to floriculture than to arboriculture, it will be found given at length in our 
Encyclopecka of Gardening, and in the first edition of this work. All the 
species may be propagated by cuttings of the roots, cuttings of the young 
wood in a growing state, by layers, or by budding or grafting; and they 
will all thrive in loamy soil, dry and rich, rather than poor. The genus Rdsa 
is in a state of confusion still greater than that which subsists among the 
different kinds of Rubus; nor can it well be otherwise, when we consider 
that the greater number of kinds in cultivation are garden productions, and 
that the wild kinds differ exceedingly according to soil and situation, and have 
been chiefly described by botanists trom dried specimens. We have adopted the 
arrangement in Don’s Miller, with the exception of omitting the first section, 
Simplicifoliz, now made a separate genus by Dr. Lindley. Where the species 
arranged under a section are natives of different countries, it may fairly be 
presumed, that there is at least one in each country entitled to be considered a 
species ; or, at least, it may be convenient to do so, in the present state of our 
knowledge. Nature, it is observed in the Nouveau Du Hamel, “ appears scarcely 
to have placed any limit between the different species of the rose ; and, if 
it is already very difficult to define the wild species, which have not yet been 
uodified by culture, it is almost impossible to refer to their original type the 
numerous varieties which culture has made in the flowers of species already 
so nearly resembling each other.” 
és, \ c 
§ i. Ferdces Lindl. Mon. p. 3. 
Dertvation. From ferow, fierce ; in reference to the branches being thickly beset with prickles. 
Sect. Char. Branches clothed with permanent tomentum, Fruit naked. The 
plants contained in this section are a truly natural group; they are low 
shrubs, losing their leaves early in autumn, and are then remarkable for 
their hoary branches, bristles, and’ numerous prickles. Their fruit is per- 
fectly smooth, which separates them from the next section, in which the 
fruit is downy. Sepals usually toothed. (Don’s Mil.) — Deciduous low 
bushes, natives of Caucasus and Kamtschatka. 
aw 1. R. FE‘Rox Lawr. The fiercely-prickled Rose. 
Identification. Lawr. Ros., t. 42,; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 565. 
Synonymes. R. kamtschatica Red. Ros. 1. p.47.; R. kamtschatica @ ferox Ser. in Dec. Prod. 2. 
p- 607.; &. echinata Dupont. 
Engravings. Lawr. Ros., t. 42.; Red. Ros., 1. p. 47. t. 12.; and 
our fig. 551. 
Spec. Char., §c. Prickles all alike in shape, and 
much crowded. Flowers large, red. Fruit glo- 
bose, scarlet. (Don’s Mill.) A very prickly 
shrub, Caucasus. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. Intro- 
duced in 1796. Flowers large, red; July and 
August. Fruit scarlet ; ripe in September. = 
Variety. 
, a R. f. 2 nitens Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 824, 
Ser. in Dee. Prod. ii. p. 607., has shining. 
pale green glabrous leaves, and pale crim- 
son flowers. Deserving a place in collec- 
tions on account of its singularity. 
551. Rosa ferox. 
a 2 R. (F.) KamTscua’tica Vent. The Kamtschatka Rose. 
Identification. Vent. Cels., t. 67. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 565. 
*ngravings. Vent. Cels., t. 67.; N. Du Ham., vol. 7. t. 10, f. 2. 3 and our fig. 552. 
Spee. Char., §e. Prickles infra-stipular, falcate, large. Leaves opaque. Flowers 
solitary, deep red. Fruit spherical, scarlet, less than that of 2. férox. (Don’s 
