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Show DAMASK ROSE. A499 dred-leaved rosé, Willdenow’s fifteenth species, are employed indiscriminately with those of the real damask rose in the distillation of rose water. PREPARATIONS. Rose Water. (Aqua Rose. L.) Takeof the leaves of fresh damask roses, with the heels cut olf, six pounds ; — of water, as much as to prevent burning : Distil off a gallon. Note. We have ordered the distilled waters to be drawn from dried herbs, because the fresh cannot be got at all times in the year. Whenever the fresh are used, the weights. must be ine creased; but whether the fresh or dry are made use of, we leave it to the judgement of the operator to vary the weight, according as he thinks the plants are in greater or less perfection, owing to the season in which they grew, or in which they were collected. DAMASK ROSE. ROSA CENTIFOLIA. Class X11. Icosandria. Essent. Gen. Cuar. As the last. Spec. Cuar. Order V. Polygynia. Germens ovate: Peduncles hispid: Stems and Petals hispid and aculeate: Petioles unarmed. spoiling of some waters is owing to some mucilage carried over keep perfectly well for any length of time. DESCRIPTION. PRESCRIPTIONS. ryN Tue leaves are pinnated, consisting of two or four pair, and an odd one at the end; these are oblong and serrated, on short The flowers are very large, at atime from the leaves, preserved by packing them closely in cans with commonsalt. This, we understand, is not the practice in Edinburgh; and, indeed, cannot succeed with the petals of the damask rose; for they lose their smell by drying. The Londonapothecaries, therefore, probably use the red rose. ‘The in the distillation ; for, if rectified by a second distillation, they a footstalks. Mr. Nicholson mentions, that as rose water is exceedingly apt to spoil, the apothecaries generally prepare it in small quantities beautiful, terminal, two or three together. The calyx is cut into five segments, and three of these cut again into other segments. R.. 1. Take of vitriolated zinc - - grains 10, ——— distilled vinegar - - drachms 2, ——— rose water - + - drachms 14: Make into a washforthe eyes, and apply this frequently. This is used when the eye-lids are greatly tumified, and has performed Wonders in that complaint. HISTORY. . The native country of this shrub is unknown, but the de lightful fragranceof its flowers has rendered it the favourite or nament of every garden. In the former editions of Linneus, the damask rose was considered as a variety only of the rosa centifolia; but Aiton, Du Roy, and Willd enow have arranged it as a distinct species. It is, however, highly probable, that the petals ofall the varieties of the rosa centifolia, or Dutch hun- R.2. Take ofvitriolated zinc rose water - - - grains 2, ounces 7: Pour some of this lotion into two cups, have a piece of rag in each cup, and keep the wet rag to the diseased eye, and when this is warm, remove it, and take the cold rag from the other cup, and so apply the lotion cold. Even rose water byitself is Yery useful for strengthening the eyes, and its smell is very reviving and grateful, 262 |