(1834)  Page(s) 7, Plate 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Infidelity. Rosa odorata flavescens. The sweet-scented China Rose. Natural Order. Rosaceae. Class and Order. Icosandria Polygynia......The Yellow Rose from its teint is made the symbol of Infidelity. ...
Instructions for colouring.- The Yellow Rose is shaded with a grey composed of indigo and yellow ochre, which permits a closer resemblance to nature than the greys before-mentioned. The corolla may receive an entire wash of gamboge and a little yellow ochre, thinly diluted; the darkest petals may be strengthened with French yellow. In finishing the leaves and stalks carmine should be mixed with the green to give the red tinge. and sepia added for the darker stem.

(1834)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Roses, the flowers of Beauty, Love, and Poetry, are held in great esteem in Persia and are cultivated t great perfection; during their continuance in bloom the Persians have a festival, whih they call the Feat of Roses. Sir Robert Ker Porter, in the third volume of 'Persia in Miniature,' thus describes a garden attached to one of the royal palaces:- "On my first entering this bower of fairy land I was struck with the appearance of two Rose-trees full fourteen feet high, laden with thousands of flowers, in every degree of expansion, and of a bloom and delicacy of scent that imbued the whole atmosphere with exquisite perfume....in this delicious garden of Negaaristan, the eye and smell are not the only senses relaged by the presence of the Rose. The ear is enchanted by the wild and beautiful notes of multitudes of nightingales, whose warblings seem to increase in melody and softness with the unfolding of their favourite flowers. Here indeed the stranger is more powerfully reminded that he is in the genuine country of the nightingale and the rose."

(1834)  Page(s) 31-32, pl. 16.  Includes photo(s).
 
Beauty, Love, and Poetry. Rosae muscosae. Pink and scarlet Moss Rose-Buds. Natural Order Rosaceae. Class and Order. Icosandria Polygynia....
The cause of the mossy appearance of this variety has been sweetly told by a German writer; and though the lines may be familiar to almost every reader, as illustrative of it they are here quoted.
"The Angel of the flowers one day
Beneath a Rose-tree sleeping lay;
That Spirit, to whose charge is given
To bathe young buds in dews from heaven,
Awaking from his light repose,
The Angel whispered to the Rose:
'O fondest object of my care,
Still fairest found where all are fair,
For the sweet shade thou'st given to me;
Ask what thou wilt, 'tis granted thee.'
'Then,' said the Rose, with deepened glow,
'On me another grace bestow.'
The Spirit paused, in silent thought,
What grace was there that flower had not!
'Twas but a moment: - o'er the Rose
A veil of moss the Angel throws,
And robed in Nature's simplest weed,
Could there a flower that Rose exceeed?"
...Instructions for colouring.- Indian-ink is preferable for the shades of the Rose, in colouring which carmine is used; a few of the petals in the interior of the Rose and the scarlet buds require Indian yellow to brighten the teint. To produce a good representation of the moss a nicety will be needful in the disposal of the different colours to prevent too harsh an appearance.

(1834)  Page(s) 27, pl. 14.  
 
Beauty Always New. Rosa semperflorens. The ever-blowing Rose. NaturalOrder. Rosaceae. Class and Order. Icosandria Polygynia. Though this variety is not found to blossom well in the vicinity of London, yet in the country where it is cultivated it enlivens the parterre with its luxuriant flowers throughout the year; hence the name and the emblem....
Instructions for colouring.- The Indian-ink shades in Rosa semperflorens, particularly the lighter petals, should be softly and faintly given. The buds and blossoms are then finely worked with carmine. The leaves under theRose require stronger shading; gamboge and Prussian blue compose the green, with which carmine is mixed for the younger leaves, stalks, and thorns.