" flowers to advantage. We have seen them in the greatest 

 " perfection, on a poor gravelly soil, exposed to east winds, 

 " about out-houses and hovels, where no care was taken of 

 11 the plant. The bush is larger than in R. lutea, and evi- 

 M den try distinguishable by the pale glaucous hue of its 

 " smooth inodorous leaves. The prickles of the stem are of 

 11 two kinds ; some twice as large as the others. Flowers 



large and very double, without scent; of a rich but deli- 

 cate golden yellow, their inner petals when perfect so pro- 

 fusely and elegantly crumpled, aud so brightly transpa- 

 " rent, that neither the structure, nor the colour of any 

 " other rose, can give the slightest idea of their beauty ; 



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" much less has any artist, except perhaps Van Huysum, in 

 " oue or two of his finest pictures, done this flower tolerable 

 "justice. The flower is well drawn in the old Hortus 

 " lvvstettensis." 



We must not however pass over old Parkinson, to whom 

 we owe the first detailed account of this fine shrub ; an 

 account that in spite of quaint style and homely language 

 lias not yet been surpassed in distinctness of description, or 

 in information relating: to the economy of the plant. At 

 that early period of its introduction (before 1629) our au- 

 thor had observed the bad effect of the vicinity of London 

 on its growth, as well as the difficulty there was of having 

 it bloom perfectly in any part of this country. He remarks 

 the round flattened calyx, the blue foliage and the even 

 serrature of the leaflets, as distinguishing it from all other 



roses. Nor has the pale opaque yellow of the outer petals 

 of the flower, as distinguished from the bright golden 



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colour of the inner ones, escaped him. Had it scent, 

 he adds, it would be of all others of highest esteem. 

 He tells us it was first introduced from Constantinople by a 

 merchant of the name of Lete, that with him it failed; and 

 was again imported from the same place by a merchant, 

 called l'ranqueville, with whom it prospered; and to whom 

 we probably owe the stock now in our gardens. 



Miller, who is at fault throughout in regard to this plant, 



asserts that it was brought by the French from Canada ; if 



so, it must have been first carried there. Some old books 



attribute the yellow colour of the flower to a rose having 



- been ingrafted on a stock of the Broom-plant ! 



Our drawing was made from a specimen kindly sent 



to Mr. Edwards by Mrs. Vicary of Holywell, near Ox- 

 ford, obtained from a garden belonging to Mr. Justice at 

 Sutton, near Abingdon. 





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