IgO SYLVA FLOR1FERA. 



Pompone, Rose de Rheims, Childing's, Blan- 

 ford, Rose St. Francis, Shailer's ; and the 

 varieties of the Damask rose are, the Red, 

 Blush, York and Lancaster, Red monthly, 

 White monthly, Blush monthly, Great Royal, 

 Blush Belgic, Red Belgic, Goliath, and Im- 

 perial blush, with many others that are yearly 

 raised in various parts of the world by sowing 

 the seeds. 



THE MOSS ROSE. — Muscosa. 



" The rose that hails the morning, 

 Array'd in all its sweets, 

 . Its mossy couch adorning, 

 The sun enamour'd meets." 



This elegant rose is generally supposed to 

 be the offspring of the Provence rose, whilst 

 others think it belongs to the family of centi- 

 folia, or hundred-leaved rose. It appears to 

 have been quite unknown to the ancients, as 

 they have left no description of a flower that 

 resembles it, and it is too singularly beautiful to 

 have escaped Pliny's notice, had it then been 

 in existence. By Furber's catalogue it ap- 

 pears that it was cultivated here in 1724; 

 but Miller first saw it in Dr. Boerhaave's 



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