n6o Of the Hiftory of Plants. Lib. 3 ; 
The Rofe is the honour and beau tie of floures, 
The Rofe is the care and loue of the Spring, 
The Rofe is the pleafure of th'heauenly powres; 
The Boy of faire Venus fytheras darling, 
Doth wrap in his head round with garlands of Rofe, 
When to the dances of the Graces he goes. 
x^tugerlus Busheckins fpeaking of the eftimation and honor of the Ro(e,reporteth that the Turks- 
canbynomeanes induretofee theleaues of Rofes fall to the ground, becaufe that fome of them 
bane dreamed, that the firft or rnoft antient Rofe did fpring of thebloud of Venus ; and others of the 
Mahometans lay, that it fprang of the fvveatof <JM.uhumtt . 
But there are many kindes ofRofes differing either in the bignelfe of the floures, or the plant it 
felfe,roughneffe or fmoothnefTe,or in the multitude of the floures, or in the fevvnefle, orelfe in co- 
lour and linell : for diners of them are high and tall, others fhort and low ; fome haue flue leaues 
others very many. Thcopbraftus telleth of acertaineRofe growing about Philippi, with an hun- 
dred leaues, which the inhabitants brought forth ofPangreum, and planted it in Campania, as 
Pliny faith; which wee hold to be the Holland Rofe, that diuers call the Prouince Rofe , but not 
properly. 
Moreouer,fome be red, others white, and moil of them or all,fweet]y fmeliing, efpecially thofe 
of the garden. 1 * 
X Rofitalba. 
The White Rofe. 
The Defcriptim. 
fcF the curious could fc 
be content, one gene- 
ral defcription might 
ferue to diftingttifli 
the whole ftocke or 
kindred of the Rofes, 
beeing things fo well knowne: notwithftan- 
ding I thinke it not ami fie to fay fomething 
of them feuerally,in hope tofatisfieall.The 
white Rofe hath very long ftalkes of a wood- 
die fubftance , fet or armed with diuers 
fharpe prickles : the branches whereof are 
likewife full of prickles, whereon doe grow 
leaues confifting of flue leaues for the moll 
part, fet vpon a middle rib by couples ; the 
old leafe (landing at the point of the fame, 
and euery one of thofe finall leaues Ibme- 
what fnipt about the edges, fomewhat rough, 
and of an ouerworne green colour from the 
bofom wherof fhoot forth long foot-ftalks, 
whereon do grow very faire double floures, 
ofa white colour, and very fweetfmell, ha- 
iling in the middle a few yellow threds or 
chines- which being paft there fticceedetha 
long fruit, greene at the firft,butredwhenit 
is ripe, and fluffed with a downie choaking 
matter, wherein is contained feed as hard as 
ftones . The root is long, tough,' and of a 
ivooddie fubftance. 
' 2 The Red Rofe groweth very low in 
refpeft of the former: the ftalkes are fhor- 
ter,fmoother, and browner of colour: the leaues are like, yet of a worfe duft ie colour : the floures 
grow on the tops of the branchcs,confifting of many leaues, of a perfe£t red colounthe fruit is like- 
wife red when it is ripe : the root a! fo vvooddie. 
3 The common Damaske Rofe in ftature,prickley branches, and in other relpe&s islikethe 
white 
