ROSES THAT BLOOM IX JUNE. 39 



Messrs. Brown, Xurserymen, of Pertli (Scotland). 

 As a stimulant to rose-growers, T will relate what 

 I have heard from the late 'Mr. Robert Brown, 

 who domiciled near this city, and was the very 

 individual ^vho planted the seeds and distributed 

 thousands of this rose through the floricultural 

 world. He says that, "in or about the year 1793, 

 he introduced to his nursery, from a hill in the 

 neighborhood, seeds saved from this rose, which 

 produced semidouble flowers ; and by continuing 

 a selection of seeds, and thus raising new plants 

 every year, they in 1803 had eight good double 

 varieties to dispose of; being white, yellow, shades 

 of blush, red, and marble ; from these the stock 

 was increased, and hundreds of varieties obtained 

 wdiich have been diffused over all Europe." Seve- 

 ral of them are cultivated in this country. AVe 

 may safely assert that this patriarch of horticul- 

 ture was the first to grow roses from seed on a 

 grand scale half a century ago. He died in the 

 autumn of 1845, and is interred in Philadelphia 

 Cemetery. He lived in the enjoyment of all his 

 faculties, retaining at an advanced age much of his 

 former originality of mind, and to him I am in- 

 debted for the communication of many practical 

 facts, the results of his long and valuable expe- 

 rience. The original varieties of this rose are not 



