Moss ROSE, 
which the flowers of this have to those of the 
common Provence Rose : yet it is, undoubt- 
edly, a distindl species ; for, although the 
stalks and shoots of this are very like those 
of the common, yet the plants are difBcult to 
propagate, which the common sort is not. \ 
This very rarely sends up suckers from, the 
roots ; and, when the branches are laid down, 
they are long before they put out roots : so 
that this sort has been frequently propagated, 
by budding it on stocks of other sorts of Roses ; 
but the plants so raised are not so durable as 
those which are propagated by layers." 
Miller enumerates no less than twenty-two 
distindl species of the Rose ; and this, which 
is the last, he thus specifically designates — 
Rosa Caule Petiolisque Aculeatis, Pedun- 
culis Calycihusque Pilosissimis — or Rose with 
Armed Stalks and Foot Stalks of the Leaves, and 
the Foot Stalks and the Empalements of the 
Flowers very Hairy. This is the Rosa Ru- 
bra Plena, Spinosissima, Pedunculo Muscoso — ■ 
or the most Thorny, Double Red Rose, with 
;i Mossy Foot Stalk, commonly called the Moss 
Provence 
