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Flowers and faa Plants now in ther Perfeion. : 
“Fs HE DOUBLE’ RED ROSE. 
H E RE has been no Time of mH we 
: ~ have Account wherein’ the Rofe ‘has: not 
been celebrated : the Glory of EF lowers, the 
7 Bi ig. 1. Favourite of Mortals; and in’the i romantic Fi orms 
of antient Expreffion, the’ Delight’ of - Gods: r, 
They crown’d' their Priefts:with: it for‘ Sactifices 
their own Brows for Feftivity *. ' They’ ftrewed_ it 
upon the Tombs of their Heroes ; ; and: ‘covered 
with it the coftly Marbles: on which‘ they placed — 
- their Wines 3.. 
Beds of Rofes were? the luxuriant 
Couches’ of Repofé of Lovers; and we underftand 
in what Conflicts he had Honour who ge ‘en- 
compafiéd with their Sweets +. i 
That more modern Tafte: holds them ‘in eau 
Refpect,: is feen in the innumerable! Variety ‘we 
have’ introduced by ‘the Arts’ of. Culture, in 
Form,: Colour, and Fulnefs of the Petals’: 
We do not efteem Rofes:lefs than the eariiet 
_ Ages did, but we have more Flowers for our Ad- 
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‘miration ; and the eden is s rather, that any one — 
Kind can retain fo much of our Regard among, 
| that Multiplicity, than that this has not more. 
Pie Species particularis’d i in. this Place, the Dou- 
ble Red. Rofe, is fitteft of all to lead the Student 
and the’ Gardener together into the original State 
of the Flower; and the Effects of Culture: for it 
is fafficiently raifed above the Hedge- Rofe, to be 
efteem’d a Garden Flower ;, and ° yet. has no’ moré 
than Fulnefs and Colour, to pei it from t the 
villa Plant in that State. | a 
‘All ‘the Authors who have’ written ‘on Plants, 
have named it : they. have called it Rofa rubra 
with various Additions from the’ ‘Condition of the 
Flower, flore fi implici, flore femi-plino, and fore valde 
pleno: the Red Rofe, with a fingle, femi- double, 
or perfectly double Flower. 
-'Linnaus, by a much more determinate Name, : 
calls it Rofa caule aculeato, pedunculis levibus femi- 
* Podov wPeoss-ov avbos 
Pode do Seoios TEOTUC. 
ANACREON, 
2 Me juvat & multo mentem vincire Lyao 
Et caput in verna femper habere rofa. 
3 Et latet injeéta fplendida menfa rofa. 
* Victor edorata dormiat inque Rofa. 
Numb. XLV. 
PROPERTIUS. 
Ovip. 
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pinnatis 
July. 2 
