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fine flower, being very double and of a deep 

 crimson colour ; but the perfume is very 

 weak, and the petals do not hang so loose 

 and gracefully as in many other species ; and 

 it has, from the regularity of its petals, been 

 compared to a rose made by a turner, and 

 therefore called Flos quasi tornatus. 



This species of rose, which has become the 

 parent of a most numerous variety, is a native 

 of the mountains lying between 41 and 42 

 degrees north latitude, if we may trust to the 

 best ancient natural historians that ever wrote 

 on plants. Pliny says, in book xxi. chap. 4. 

 that the roses which grow about Campania, in 

 Italy, and near Philippi, a city in Greece, are 

 so double that they have a hundred leaves, 

 and are therefore called Centifolia. " How- 

 ever," says this author, " these soils do not 

 bring forth these hundred-leaved roses natu- 

 rally, for it is the mountain Pangseus near 

 adjoining upon which they grow naturally, 

 but when transplanted into the neighbour- 

 hood of Philippi they become finer flowers 

 than when on their native mountain ;" and 

 he adds, that " these very double roses are 

 not so sweet as others." This author tells 

 us, that Csepio, who lived in the time of the 

 emperor Tiberius, was of opinion, that the 

 hundred-leaved rose had no grace in a gar- 



