laws, both in the vegetable and mineral world, 
and which so much puzzles and confounds 
both the naturalist and philosopher. Instance 
only the daisy, the ranunculus, the anemone, 
the stock, the wall-flower, the pink, the car- 
nation, the Siberian larkspur, the rose, &c. 
I cannot Iiere omit to mention in particular 
the very fine varieties of double Scotch roses, 
raised from seed within these few years by 
the Browns and Dicksons in Scotland, which 
retain every character of the two diminutive 
single red and white Scotch roses, as to wood, 
spine, leatj &c. except in the extreme double- 
ness of flower. The four adjudged superior 
sorts, — the white, red, blush, and purple, — ^have 
been obtained after many years patience, per- 
severance and trial, by growing the old Scotch 
roses, w^hich are as single and hardly as large 
as the common dog rose or wild briar by the 
side of double roses of other countries, having 
been married by that little officious insect the 
bee, and the farina of one rose impregnated 
with that of another. Dame Nature, I believe 
generally, if not always, gives her vegetable 
productions at first single : all variations from 
this rule are termed anomalies, and accounted 
monstrous; but the truth and causes I will 
