The Monthly Rose. — The White Jasmine. 27 



The Monthly Rose. 



We find the peculiarities of the various countries stamped, not 

 only on the inhabitants of the Animal Kingdom, but equally so 

 on the Vegetable. The Roses of China are distinguished by 

 their light and crispy qualities. This species was brought from 

 that country to England in 17S9. It was at first considered so 

 very delicate as to require a constant residence in a hot-house, 

 but necessity soon placed it in pots, where it throve even better 

 than it had done before ; and very soon it was transferred to the 

 open air, where it flourished to perfection. At present the usual 

 mode of propagating Hoses is by slips or layers ; the first ones 

 sold, of this species, brought several guineas each, but their uni- 

 versal diffusion soon lowered the price to a merely nominal rate. 

 In appearance it resembles the Damascena. The Rosa Semper- 

 florens — China Rose, has the germs of an oblong egg-shape; 

 germs and flower-stalks hairy ; stem prickly. The flower-stalks 

 spring from different heights, but form a flat top. It frequently 

 attains the height of ten feet It is one of the earliest flowering 

 Roses, and in mild seasons, planted against a wall, will flower 

 in April. The variety represented in our plate bears beautiful 

 crimson flowers, from January to December. The Dutch are 

 said to have invented a method of preserving the dwarf species 

 a great length of time, by budding them on the larger kinds, and 

 in this way produce a tree covered wilh various and differently 

 colored species. This is the emblem of Beauty ever new. 



The White Jasmine. 



This plant appropriately 6Jgniiie» Delicacy and Elegance. 

 Cowper describes the 



Jasmine throwing wide her elegant sweets, 

 The deep green of whose unvarnished leaf 

 Makes more conspicuous, and illumines more, 

 The bright profusion of her natural stars. 



It is the type of the natural order Jasminaceac, which consists 



