MOSS ROSE. 
In whatever way we regard this changing 
flower, it's excellence is great ; and, perhaps, 
taken all together, the Moss Rose may l>e 
considered, among Rose?, as incomparably the 
most interesting. It's siru6lure is, at once^ 
pecuHar, curious, and elegant; it's colour, ex- 
quisitely beautiful ; it's odour, deiiciously fra- 
grant. In every thing, but what regards the 
mossy adornment from which it derives it's 
common EngUsh appellation, it certainly re- 
sembles, and cannot well surpass, the Ccnti- 
foha, or Hundred Leaved Red Rose, of Lin- 
nseus. Hence the great Swedish naturalist 
has been induced to consider it ar> meiely a 
variety of that species. To this opiiiiorij much 
as v^^e reverence the authority of that incom- 
parable man, w^e cannot possibly bring our 
minds to assent ; and are satisfied, that the 
difference is sufficiently great, and constantj 
to justify Tournefort, Miller, and others, who 
have considered it as a distindl species. 
" The Mess Rose," says Miller, js called 
the Moss Provence Rose, fr©m the resemblance 
which 
