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PRACTICE OF GARDENING. 



Part III, 



of the most humble cottager upwards; some species, as jR. centifolia damascena, &c. are 

 also cultivated by commercial gardeners on a large scale for distilling rose-water, and for 

 making attar, or essential oil of roses. Six pounds of rose-leaves will impregnate by dis- 

 tillation a gallon of water strongly with their odor ; but a hundred pounds afford 

 scarcely half an ounce of attar. The rose is also used in medicine. Botanists are not 

 agreed as to the number of original species of this genus, some regard all the European 

 species as originated from one source ; others, and especially the moderns, divide them 

 into species, subspecies, and varieties. The most scientific work which has appeared 

 on the roses in England, is the Rosarum Monographia of Lindley, 1819, in which 

 above a hundred species or subspecies are described, and some of them figured ; and 

 Miss Laurence lias publislied ninety plates of A Collection of Roses from Nature, 

 1810. In France, Guillemeau has published Histoire Naturelle de la Rose, 1800; 

 and Redoute and Thory are engaged in a splendid work, in folio, entitled Les Roses, 

 containing plates of all the known species and varieties of this flower. Thory has pub- 

 lished a separate tract on their cultu re, entitled Prodrome de In ]\£onogrciphie du Genre 

 Rosier, See. 1820; Pronville, a Nomenclature Raisonnee, in 1818; and Vibert, Ob- 

 servations, &c. in 1820. A copious and intelligent account of the Scotch roses has been 

 lately given by Sabine [Hort. Trans, iv. 231.), and some hundreds of new varieties have 

 flowered from seedling plants, in the nursery of Lee, and will soon be found in his sale- 

 catalogues. 



6545. Species and varieties. The lists of the London and Taris nurserymen contain upwards of 500 

 names: that of Calvert and Co., Englishmen, wlio have cstablis^hed a nursery at Bonne Nouvelle near 

 Rouen, enumerates near sorts. The greater part of these have been raised from seed on the continent, 

 where it rijiens l)etter than in this country, witliin tlic last thirty years. A number of varieties have also 

 been raisecl in Eritain, especially of the It. spiiios/ssima, or Scotch rose, of which above 300 varieties 

 are procurable in tlic ( i I is-(v,v nursery. New varieties are raised in France and Italy annually ; Villaresi, 

 royal gardener at Mmuzi, has raised upwards of il/ty varieties of liosa itul/ai ; not one of which have, as 

 far as we know, r. M lied liiis country. Some of them are quite black, otlu rs shaped like a ranunculus, 

 and many of them lii^'hly odoriferous. The followin^j; table contains nearly loO species and varieties of sin- 

 gle roses, of longest staiiditig:, arranged according to th.eir time of fiowcrin.'<, heights, and colors ; and of 

 the greater number of wliich there are double and semi-doublo varieties of the same colors. The names 

 are chiefly taken from Page's Proilrovius, and the plants are known by them in the Hammersmith nursery. 

 Ample lists, as already observed, may be had from all the principal nurserymen, and the best mode of 

 making a selection is to view the plants while in flower. 



6546. ROSES. — MAY. 



Heifrhtfrmn to 1 Jbof. 



From Ifoot to 'ifcet. 



Frmn '2 feet lo 3fcrt. 



From 5 feet to Hfiet. 



From b fid to & feet. 



RED. 



WHITE. 



PURPLE. 

 VARIEGATED. 



RED. 



Rosa spinosissima rub.;). 

 — ))r:ecox 



WHITE. 

 Rosa spinosissima alb. p. 



PURPLE. 

 Rosa sjiinosiss. niarm. ji. 



VARIEGATED. 

 Rosa spinosiss. pannic. ji. 



RED. 



WHITE. 



PURPLE. 

 VARIEGATED. 



JUNE. 



RED. 



Rosa pimpinellifulia 



WHITE. 



PURPLE. 

 VARIEGATED. 



RED. 



WHITE. 



PURPLE. 

 VARIEGATED. 



RED. 



flosa ])umila 



WHITE. 



'lasa pilosa, ;>. 



— jiyrenaica 



— roxlnir{;hii, p. 



— siliirica 

 YELLOW. 



.losa prostrata, p. 



RED. 



Rosa alpina rubra 



— procera 



— provincialis 



WHITE. 

 Rosa alpina 



YELLOW. 



RED. 



Rosa centifolia 



— rubiginosa coccinea 

 damascena 



— rubiginosa apiifolia 



WHITE. 



YELLOW. 



Rosa lutea 



— — bicolor 



JULY. 



RED. 



ilosa caucasica 



— ferox 



— pendulina 



— cinnanionia 



— rul)iginosa 



WHITE. 

 Rosa alba 



— muscosa 



— tenerift'ensis 



YELLOW. 



RED. 



Rosa olympica 

 — villosa 



WHITE. 

 YELLOW. 



RED. 



WHITE. 

 VELLOW. 



PURPLE. 



RED. 



Rosa bland.spinis rubr.p. 



— indica resplendens 



— diversaeflora, p. 



— indica saUcifi)lia,p- 



WHITE. 

 R.osa lucida 



YELLOW. 



PURPLE. 



Rosa minuta, d. 



RED. 



Rosa blanda, p. 



WHITE. 

 YELLOW. 



PURPLE. 

 Ross minuta, d. 

 A TTnTTST" 



RED. 



Rosa turbinata 



— lyonii,;). 



— rubifolia, p. 



WHITE. 



Rosa kamschatica ' 



YELLOW. 

 Rosa americana lutea, p. 



— — stricta 



— caroHncana 



PURPLE. 



RED. 



Rosa indica, p. 



WHITE. 

 YELLOW. 



PURPLE. 



YELLOW. 1 RED. 1 RED. | RED. | WHITE. 



Rota liractM'a, )>. ' Rosa pennsyl^nica, p. 1 1 ' Rosa nioschata 



