MOSS ROSE. 
Provence Rose — of Boerhaave. The stalks and 
branches of this Rose are closely armed with 
brown spines ; the foot stalks of the flowers,, 
and the empalements, are covered with long 
hair-like Moss; and tlie flowers are of an ele- 
gant crimson colour, and have a most agree- 
able odour.'* 
He observes, that most of the ditFerent sorts 
of Roses are of foreign growth, and have 
been at various times introduced into the En- 
glish gardens: but gives us no information as 
to the time when, or the climate from whence, 
this fine Rose was originally brouglit into our 
country. Fie remarks, however, " that Roses 
in generai are natives of northern countries, 
or grow on the cold mountains in the warmer 
parts of Europe: so that they are very hardy 
with respc6l to cold, but love an open, free air. 
Some species," he says, will not flower in a 
warm soil and situation, nor near the smoke of 
London. In a rich, moist soil, and open situ- 
ation, they will produce a greater quantity of 
flowers, and those much finer, than when they 
are on a dry soil, or in a shady situation. 
The pruning which they rec[uire is only to cut 
out 
