266 _, NATURAL HISTORY. 
Volumes have been written on their cultivation ; and, 
as the flower is fo well known, we fhall only add, 
that pinks are {et indifferently, either im open ground, 
upon beds, in earthen pots, orin tubs, in Autumn, 
or the month of March. ‘They are one of the chief 
ornaments of al} gardens; and are remarkable for the 
variety, beauty and excellence of the flower. 
— Shc TENE HOH— 
“AUSTRIAN ROSE. 
"Tuts plant has, like other rofes, a prickly ftalk, 
which is garnifhed with winged leaves of an oval 
form, and their lebes fawed. The flower confifts of 
petals that are indented at the top, and which have 
one fide red aad the other yellow. It beinga fhrub, 
it may be propagated from the fuckers that grow 
from the roots, or from the offsets, either in {pring or 
autumn. It bloffoms during the months of July and’ 
Auguft. Although this flower is much cultivated, 
yet Miller, obferves, that it is only an accidental va- 
riety of the rofe confidered asa genus. Among the 
many fpecies of rofes, this is cultivated'as one of the 
moft valuable embellifhments of a fhrubbery. . 
acoA MEMES HHOH— - 
HELLEBORE 
Grows wild in Italy, Auftria and Lombardy. 
It thrives beft on high fituations. It has a plain ftalk, 
ungarnifhed with leaves, until it produces the bloffom 
