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claiming the moss rose as originating in Eng- 

 land : he says, " nous ferons observer qu'il 

 n'est pas rare de voir les Iconographes An- 

 glais considerer beaucoup de plantes comme 

 indigenes au sol de leur pays, toutes les ibis 

 que le lieu dans lequel elles vegetent natu- 

 rellement leur est inconnu, circonstance qui 

 doit faire rejeter toutes les assertions de ce 

 genre." 



Madame de Genlis tells us, that during her 

 first visit to England, she saw moss roses for 

 the first time, and that she took to Paris a 

 moss rose-tree, which was the first that had 

 been seen in that city ; and she says, in 

 1810, " the cultivation of this superb flower 

 is not yet known in France." 



Madame de Latour endeavours to do away 

 this statement. In a high strain of compli- 

 ment, she says, " when Madame de Genlis 

 returned from London to Paris, she was 

 became very celebrated, and the crowds of 

 people who went to her house under pretence 

 of seeing the moss rose-tree, were attracted 

 thither by that lady's celebrity; and the 

 modesty of Madame de Genlis alone could 

 have led her into this error; for this rose- 

 tree," she adds, " which is originally from 

 Provence, has been known to us for several 

 ages." 



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