AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 



The Field Rose (Rosa arvensis) is another form of the Dog Rose. 

 This is much more fragrant than the last-mentioned. It is also the 

 most common climbing Rose in the West of Scotland, and is gene- 

 rally mentioned as the Ayrshire Rose. The class includes several 

 varieties, some of which are powerfully Mj^-rh-scented. 



' Then I will raise aloft the milk-white Rose. 

 With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed. ' — Shakespeare. 



' There will we make our bed of Roses 

 And a thousand fragrant posies.' — Shakespeare. 



One of the most delightful sweet-smelling garden Roses we possess 

 is the Provence, or Cabbage Rose {Eosa Provincialis), which has 

 been claimed by the inhabitants of the South of France as a native 

 of Provence ; whilst the Dutch, says Gerard, consider themselves 

 entitled to this flower, and say, as it first came out of Holland, it 

 ought to have been named the Holland Rose, and not Provence 

 Rose ; but it appears very evidently from Pliny, that neither of 

 these coimtries can justly hold it as a native plant. He calls it a 

 Greek Rose, and thus describes it in the fourth chapter of his 

 twenty-first book : ' The Rose named Gra3cula has its petals or 

 flower-leaves folded or lapped over each other so closely that they 

 will not open of themselves, unless they be forced with the fingers, 

 and therefore look as if they were always in the bud, but when 

 they are expanded, they are the largest of all Roses.' This account 

 correctly corresponds with the nature of the Provence Rose, which 

 is often called the Cabbage Rose, from the manner in which the 

 petals cabbage or fold over each other. As this Rose is so nearly 

 allied to the Damask Rose, it is probable the Greeks first obtained 

 it from the vicinity of Damascus, and that the trivial change is 

 owing to soil and cultivation. 



' The Rose that hails the morning, 



Arrayed in all its sweets. 

 Its mossy couch adorning, 

 The sun enamour'd meets.' 



The Moss Rose [Bosa muscosa). — This elegant Rose is generally 

 supposed to be the off'spring of the Provence Rose, whilst others 

 think it belongs to the family of Centifolia or Hundred-leaved Rose. 

 It appears to have been unknown to the ancients, as they have left 

 no description of a flower that resembles it, and it is too singularly 

 beautiful to have escaped Pliny's notice had it been in exist- 

 ence. 



The Moss Rose is made the emblem of voluptuous love, and the 



