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HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE. 
Tuts tree bears a very double fine flower, of 
a deep crimson colour; its perfume, however, 
is weak. 
It is mentioned by Pliny as growing around 
Campania, in Italy, and in the neighbourhood of 
Philippi, in Greece, and its flowers are so double 
that they have a hundred leaves. This rose does 
not, however, grow there naturally, but near to 
Mount Pangeus, and when transplanted from 
thence to Philippi, they yield finer flowers than 
on their native mountain. It is recorded, that 
when the Graces accompany Venus and her 
ministering Cupids, they are crowned with 
myrtle ; and when they follow the Muses they 
are crowned with wreaths of the hundred-leaved 
rose. 
