The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

ROSE-TREES.

THere are divers excellent sorts of ROSES, vvhich former Ages vvere Strangers unto. An Account thereof is as followeth:

The English Red Rose, common to all; the Rose of the World, of a pale Blush vvith red Spots; the Hungarian Rose, vvhich is of a paler red than the common Rose, and hath many faint Spots in the Leaves; the Red Province Rose, vvhich hath its Flowers large, thick, and double, vvith no great Scent; the Red Belgick Rose, of a fine deep Red, vvith the Flowers very thick and double; the Dwarf Red Rose, called by some the July Flower Rose, vvhich grows low, vvith the Flowers thick but small, and is of a pleasant Car∣nation Colour, and vvell scented; the double Vel∣vet Rose, vvhich hath two or three rows of Leaves of a dark Velvet-red Colour; the Marble Rose, much of the nature of the Velvet Rose, as to its growing; but different in Flower, vvhich is larger, more double, and of a lighter Red; the Rose vvithout Thorns, or the Virgin Rose, much like the Marble Rose, only vvithout Thorns, and the Flowers are not so thick and double, and of a pale Colour; the Frankford Rose, vvhich hath large thick vvhitish green Leaves, vvith the Flow∣ers very thick and double, which are of a blewish red, and very strong Scented; the Ci∣namon Rose which is very early, coming in May; it is but small, and of a pale red; the Da∣mask Rose well known to all, none being so common nor of so much use, especially for ma∣king Rose-Water; the party Coloured Damask Rose commonly called York and Lancaster, differeth in that the Flowers are parted and marked with a pale blush, inclining to a white upon the Da∣mask Colour; the Christal Rose little differeth from the York and Lancaster only 'tis better mar∣ked; the Damask province Rose is very large, thick and double, and of a deeper blush; the Monthly Rose, much like the Damask Rose, but not so sweet, it commonly bears three times a year, viz. in June, about mid August, and about the end of September; the Blush Belgick Rose, or the white Province as being of a pale blush. Thus much for Red Roses.

The Single Yellow Rose, by some Florists esteem∣ed

but a wild Rose; The Scarlet Rose of Austria groweth much like the former, with single Flow∣ers, which within are Scarlet, and without side of a pa••e Brimstone Colour. The double yellow Rose hath its Flowers of a pale yellow, and grows some∣thing like the Damask Province Rose.

The common white Rose is of two sorts, the one double, the other single, and both well known.

The Blush-Rose differs nothing from the White but in Colour, which is a very pale Blush. [ 10]

The double Musk-Rose hath its Flowers, that come forth on long foot Stalks at the End of the Branches many together in a Tuft, not very double, and of a whitish Colour and strong Scent∣ed; They Flower in August.

The Ever-green-Rose, so called by reason the Leaves fall not off in the Winter, but stay on un∣til thrusted off at the Spring by the new.

The Great Apple-Rose hath a great Stock, and many Branches, with the Flowers small and sin∣gle, [ 20] standing on prickly Bottoms, which after the Flowers are fallen, grow great, red, and of the fashion of a Pear.

Mr. Rea saith, that Roses are increased by lay∣ing of Layers, that is, the Branches put in the Earth with good rotten Dung about them to grow the faster; or by Inoculating the Buds of them in other Stocks; and the best Stocks are those of the Damask, the white and the Franckford; and about Midsummer, or when good Buds can be got. [ 30] The Stocks of Budded Roses must be carefully kept from Suckers. But the best Stocks for the Musk and Yellow-Rose, and all those double and Centiple-Roses are the sweet Brier.

When the Roses have done bearing, the Tops should be cut with your Garden-Shears some∣thing neer, and three or four days after the change of the Moon, and then they will bear again about Michaelmass; and towards the Spring each Branch should be cut again with a Pruning-Knife close to [ 40] the Leaf-Bud, and what is dead or superfluous should be taken away.