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Parsons on the Rose / A Treatise on the Propagation, Culture and History of the Rose

Chapter 41: Transcribers Note:
By Samuel Browne Parsons
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The treatise provides a practical and historical guide to roses, opening with botanical and garden classifications and detailed advice on soil, planting, pruning, training, potting, forcing, and propagation. It explains multiplication by seed and hybridizing, and addresses diseases and insect pests. Extended sections survey the rose's early history and its roles in ceremonies, festivals, medieval culture, perfumery, and medicine. Illustrated lists of varieties and cultivation recommendations reflect the author's own experience and selective use of contemporary growers' expertise, aiming to aid selection and promote wider appreciation and successful culture of the flower.

FOOTNOTES:

[1]

“Tempora subtilius pinguntur tecta coronis,
 Et latent injecta splendida mensa Rosa.” (Ovid, lib. v.)

[2]

“Non vivunt contra naturam, qui hieme concupiscunt Rosam?
 Fomentoque aquarum calentium, et calorum apta imitatione, bruma
 lilium florem vernum, exprimunt.” (Seneca, epistle 122-8.)

[3]

“Ergo cum primum, magnas invecta per urbes
 Munificat tacita mortales muta salute;
 Ære atque argento, sternunt iter omne viarum.
 Largifica stipe dilantes, ninguntque Rosarum
 Floribus, umbrantes matrem comitumque catervas.”
 Lucretius, lib. ii., ver. 625.

[4]

“Hæc hora est tua, dum furit Lyæus
 Cum regnat Rosa, cum madent capilli,
 Tunc me vel rigidi legant Catones.”
 Lib. x., epig. 19.

 

 

Transcribers Note:

Page 123 contains a reference to “c in fig. 10” which does not exist. The text reads: “Then take a mat-string, or a piece of yarn, and firmly bind it around the bud, leaving only the petiole and bud exposed ...” seemingly intending to refer to the image in fig. 10 on the left.