36 ROSES THAT BLOOM IX JUNE. 



species ; but we will proceed, regarding them as 

 one. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of 

 varieties of the rose family cultivated; among 

 such a progeny, it is rather remarkable that there 

 are so few yellow, and none black ; yet there are 

 no two colors more sought for. The Rosa Sul- 

 yliurea^ or Double Yellow of Lindley, has never 

 been seen in a single state. It js a very old in- 

 habitant of the gardens of Europe, though com- 

 paratively rare here. In Scotland, thirty- five 

 years ago, I saw a plant of it, which was then 

 considered a great curiosity, though it appeared 

 to have been there a quarter of a century ; it 

 always showed a profusion of buds, but rarely a 

 well-blown flower ; it never felt the pruning-knife, 

 being left to nature. History first notices it as 

 being cultivated in Turkey. ISTothing of its ori- 

 gin is as yet known, though supposition give it a 

 locality on the fertile soil of the Chinese empire. 

 This rose has produced a great deal of money to 

 the French venders, especially those charlatans 

 who make their market in strange places, where 

 they never intend to appear again under the same 

 name. It has travelled from east to west as the 

 Double Yelloiu Proviiis^ Double Yellow Moss, &,c. 

 The foliage is small, of a pale yellowish-green, the 

 wood rather slender and weak, studded with small 



