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The (garden of plea/ant Flowers. 
Ch ap.CIX. 
Rufa. The Rofe tree or bufh. 
T Hc great varietie of Rofes is much to be admired, beeing more then is tb bee 
feene in any other fhrubby plant that I know,both for colour,formc and fmell. 
I hauc to furnifli this garden thirty forts at the lcaft, euery one notably diffe- 
ring from the other, and all nr to be here entertained : forthcrearefomeother, that 
being wilde and of no beautie or fmell, we forbeare, and leauc to their wllde habita- 
tions. To diftinguifh them by their colours, as whitc,red, incarnate, and yellow, were 
awaythatmany might take, but I hold it not fo conuenicnt for diuers reipefts : forfo 
I flionld confound thofeof diuers forts one among another, and I fhould not keepe 
that methode which to me feemeth moft conuenicnt, which is, to place and ranke e-, 
uery kinde,whether Angle or double,one next vnto the other, that fo you may the bet- 
ter vnderftand their varieties and differences : I will therefore beginne with the moft 
ancient, and knowne Rofes to our Countrey, whether naturali or no I know not, but 
affirmed by our precedent Kings of all others, to bee cognifanccs of their dignitie 
the white Rofe and the rcd,whom fhall follow the damasie,of the fineft fent,and moft 
vfe of all the other lorts, and the reft in their order. 
i . Reft Anglia alba. The Englifh white Rofe. 
The white Rofe is of twokindes, the otic more thickc and double then the others 
The one rifeth vp in fome fhadowie places, vnto eight or ten foote high, with a ftocke 
of a great bigneffe for a Rofe. The other growing feldome higher then a Daraaskc 
Rofe. Somedoeiudgeborhthefetobebutonckinde, the diuerfitie happening bythe 
ayre,or ground, or both. Both thefe Rofes haue fomewhat fmallcr and whiter greene 
leaues then in many other Rofes, flue moft vfually fet on a ftalke,and more white vnder- 
neath, as alfo a whiter greene barke, armed with fliarpe thornes or prickles, whereby 
they are foone known from other Rofes, although the one not fo eafily from the other: 
the flowers in the onearewhitifh, withaneye or (hew of ablufh, efpecially towards 
the ground or bottome of the flower, very thicke double.and clofe fet together, and for 
the moft part not opening it felfe fo largely and fully as eyther the Red or Damaske 
Rofe. The other more white, le(Tethickeanddouble,andopeningitfelfcmore, and 
fome fo little double as but of two or three rowes, that they might be held to be fiogle 
yet all of little or no fmell at all. Todefcribcyouallthefeuerallpartsof theRofef as 
the bud, the beards, the threds &c. were needlefte, they are lo conuerfant in euery ones 
hand, that I (hall not neede but to touch the moft fpeciall part s of the varieties of them, 
and leaue a more exaift relation of all things incident vnto them, vnto a generali worke! 
i.Rofa incarnata. The Carnation Ro(e. 
The Carnation Rofe is in moft things like vnto the leffer white rofe, both for the 
growingof theftocke, and bignefle of the flower, but char itis morefpreadeabroade 
when it is blown then the white is, and is of a pale bluflr colour all the flower thorough- 
out, of asfmallafcntasthewhiteoneisalmoft. ° 
Ufa uti# ca This kinde of Rofe is not very great,but very thickc and double, and is very variable 
f* y,tra - in the flowers, in that they will be fo different one from another : fome being paler then 
others, and fome as it wereblaftcd, which commeth not cafually, but naturally to this 
rofe: but thebeftflowets (whereof there will bee ftill fome; will be of abri°htpale 
murrey colour, neerevnto the Veluet rofe, but nothing fo darkca colour. 
3- Raft Anglia rubra. The Englifh red Rofe. 
The red Rofe (which I call Engliih,not only for the reafon before expreffed, but be- 
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