ROSA. 



away. It has fometimes flowers entirely yellow on one 

 branch, and copper-coloured on another. 



In the fourth fpecies there is a double variety, in which 

 the (hoots are redder; the flowers fmall, fhort, thick, and 

 double, of a pale red colour at the end of the leaves (petals), 

 fomewhat redder and brighter towards the middle. It is the 

 fmallefl and earlielt of the double garden rofes, flowering in 

 May. 



In the feventh fort there are feveral varieties, as the flriped- 

 flowered, or with variegated flowers, red llriped with white. 

 The red Scotch rofe, which feldom rifes more than a foot 

 high ; the ftalks are covered with a brown bark, and are 

 clofely armed with fmall fpincs ; the leaves are very fmall ; 

 the flowers are alfo fmall, feflile, and of a livid red colour ; 

 the fruit is round, of a deep purple colour, inclining to 

 black when ripe. And according to Withering, there is 

 alfo a variety with prickly peduncles, and cream-coloured 

 flowers, changing to white. Lawrance likewife mentions a 

 double Scotch rofe. 



In the eighth kind there is a variety with a double 

 flower. 



Of the twelfth fpecies there are feveral varieties, as the 

 red Provence rofe ; the Hem and branches are not fo great 

 as thofe of the other, but greener, the bark not being fo 

 red ; the flowers are not fo large, thick and double, but 

 of a little deeper damaflc or blufli colour, turning to red, 

 but not coming near the full colour of the beft red rofe ; 

 nor is the fcent fo fweet as that of the damaflc Provence, but 

 coming near that of the ordinary red rofe. It is not fo 

 plentiful in bearing as the damaflc Provence. The blufli 

 Provence rofe, in which the italks rife from three to four 

 feet high, and are unarmed ; the leaves are hairy on their 

 under fide ; the peduncles have fome fmall fpines ; the feg- 

 ments of the calyx are femi-pinnate ; the corolla has five or 

 fix rows of petals, which are large, and fpread open ; they 

 are of a pale blufli colour, and have a mufky fcent. The 

 white Provence rofe, which differs only in the colour of the 

 flowers. The great and fmall dwarf Provence rofes, called 

 rofe de Meaux, difter from each other in little except fize ; 

 the fmallerof the two is generally known by the nurfery-raen 

 and gardeners by the name of Pompone rofe. It throws 

 out numerous Hems, which rarely exceed a foot, or a foot and 

 half, in height ; ufually ftraight, rigid, and very prickly ; 

 the flowers very fmall, and didinguifhed by the brilliant 

 colour of the central petals, appearing in June. All the 

 forts flower from July to Auguft. 



In the thirteenth fpecies the varieties are very numerous ; 

 as the Dutch hundred-leaved rofe ; the blufh hundred-leaved 

 rofe ; the Singleton's hundred-leaved rofe. 



The finglc and double velvet rofe, which, according to 

 Parkinfon, has the old ftein covered with dark-coloured 

 bark, but the young (hoots of a fad green, with few or no 

 thorns ; the leaves are of a fadder green than in ino4t rofes, 

 and very often feven on a (talk; the flow* r is fingle ; or 

 double, with two rows of petals, the outer larger, of a deep 

 red, like crimfon velvet ; or more double, with fixtcen petals 

 or more in a flower, mod of them equal : they have all lefs 

 fcent than the ordinary red role. The Burgundy rofe, 

 which is an elegant little plant, not more than a foot or 

 eighteen inches in height. The fultan rofe, the Sti ( 

 refe, the gurnet rofe, the bifhop rofe, and the Lifbon rofe. 



In the fourteenth fort there are feveral varieties; as the 

 red officinal rofe, the Mundi rofe, which has the flowers 

 very elegantly llriped or variegated with red and white : in 

 other circumllances it fo perfectly refembles the red rofe, 

 that there can be no doubt of its being a variety of that ; 



indeed it frequently happen^ that a red rofe or two appears 

 on the fame plant with the variegated flowers. The Child- 

 ing rofe, the marbled rofe, and the double virgin rofe, 

 which have great affinity with each other, according to 

 Miller. 



Of the fifteenth fort there are alfo feveral varieties, as the 

 red damaflc rofe, the blufk damaflc rofe, which differ only in 

 the (hade and colour. The York and Lancafter rofe, which 

 agrees with the damaflc in flalk, leaf, &c. differing only in 

 the flower being variegated with white firipes. Mr. Hart's 

 rofe has the white llripes more diitinft ; the flowers in thefe 

 being lefs double than in feveral others, are frequently fuc- 

 ceeded by fruit, and have ripe feeds, from which other 

 varieties may be obtained. According to Parkinfon, fome- 

 times one half of the petal is of a pale whitifh colour, and 

 the other half of a paler damaflc than common ; or one petal 

 is white or ftnped with white, and the other half blufli or 

 llriped with blufli ; fometimes alfo llriped or fpotted over, 

 and at other times little or no ftripes or marks, and the 

 longer it remains blown open in the fun, the paler and the 

 fewer firipes, marks, or fpots will be feen in it. The fmell 

 is of a fweet damaflc rofe lecnt. The red monthly rofe, the 

 white monthly rofe, which are fo called from their continuing 

 to blow in fucceflion during the greater part of the fummer ; 

 not that they blow in every month, as the name implies. 

 They are, in every refpedt, like the damaflc rofe, unlefs it 

 be that they are more full of prickles than that. The blufh 

 Belgic rofe, which rifes about three feet high, with prickly 

 Italics ; the leaves are compofed of five or feven leaflets, 

 which are oval, hairy on their under fide, and (lightly fer- 

 rate ; the peduncles and calyxes are large and femi-pinnate ; 

 the flowers very double, of a pale flefh colour, with little 

 fcent, generally in great quantities. The red Belgic rofe, 

 which differs only in having the colour of the flower a deep 

 red. The great royal rofe, and the imperial blufh damaflc 

 rofe. 



In the nineteenth fort the cultivated plant grows larger 

 and more erect: ; the leaves are bigger and much fweeter 

 than in the wild one, the rufly colour of them difappears, 

 and the whole puts on a more vigorous appearance ; the 

 fweet fcent is fuppofed to proceed from the gland. There 

 are varieties with doublu flowers ; as the common double 

 fweet-briar, the mofly double fweet-briar, the evergreen 

 double fweet-briar, the red double fweet-briar, the royal 

 fweet-briar, and the yellow fweet-briar. 



Of the twanty-firfl kind there is a variety with double 

 flowers. And the editor of Miller's dictionary confiders the 

 evergreen muflc rofe of Miller to be the fame with this. 



Of the twenty-fourth fort, according to Parkinfon, there 

 are two varieties of the white garden rofe ; one attaining 

 fometimes the height of eight or ten feet, with a flock of a 

 great bignefs, the other feldom higher than a damaflc lofe. 

 Both have fomewhat fmaller and whiter-green leaves than in 

 many other rofes, five molt ufually on a ftalk, and paler 

 underneath ; as alfo a whiter-green bark, armed with (hort 

 prickles. The flowers in the one are whitifh, with an eye 

 of blufh, efpecially towards the bottom, very double, and 

 for the molt part not opening fo fully as the red or damaflc 

 rofe. In the other more white, lefs double, and opening 

 more. Some have only two or three rows of petals ; and 

 all have little or no fmell. 



Method of Culture. — In all the forts the increafc may be 

 effected by fuckers, layers, or by budding upon ftocks of 

 other forts of rofes ; but this lalt method is only pra&ifcd 

 for fome peculiar forts, which do not grow well upon their 

 Own ftocks, and fend forth fuckers fpanngly. Where more 

 4 B 7 forts 



