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KATURAL HISTORt. 
AUSTRIAN ROSE. 
TT* HIS plant has, like other rofes, a prickly 
ftalk, -which is garnifhed with winged leaves 
of an oval form, and their lobes fawed. 
The flower confifts of petals that are indent- 
ed at the top, and which have one fide red 
and the other yellow. It being a fhrub, it 
may be propagated fromthe fuckers that grow 
from the roots or from the offsets, either 
in fpring or autumn. It bloflbms during the 
months of July and Auguft. Although this 
flower is much cultivated, yet Miller ob- 
ferves, that it is only an accidental variety of 
the rofe confidered as a genus. Among the 
many fpeeies of rofes, this is cultivated as 
one of the moft valuable cmbellifhments of 
a fhrubbery. 
G. 
HELLEBORE. 
ROWS wild in Italy, Auflria, and Lom- 
bardy. It thrives befl; on high fituations. 
It has a plain flalk, ungarniflied with leaves, 
until it produces the blolTom on its fuinmit : 
the flower is yellow, and compofed of five 
or more petals. The root is fibrous. This 
plant fliould be propagated by ofl'sets, and 
the roots fliould be taken out of the ground, 
and 
