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from Persia in 1838. Harrisonii is also a beautiful 
free-flowering Rose. These Roses, after the first or 
second year, require little or no pruning ; let the 
heads be kept well thinned, and merely the ends 
taken off the long shoots. They are, perhaps, 
more impatient of a smoky atmosphere than any 
other Roses, and to grow them successfully they 
must have pure air and a warm dry soil. 
Austrian Yellow: flowers single, colour bright yellow ; succeeds 
best grown upon its own roots ; mod. 
Austrian Copper: flowers reddish copper, single, striking and 
beautiful ; succeeds best upon its own roots ; mod. 
Harrisonii (Harrison, 1830): fine golden yellow, semi-double, 
flowers of moderate size ; a very free grower, and a most abundant 
bloomer ; forms a good weeping or pillar Rose ; rob. 
Persian Yellow (Willcock, 1838): the deepest golden yellow, 
flowers large and full ; the finest of all double yellow Roses, hardy 
and free growing ; rob, 
THE SWEET BRIAR. 
(Rosa rubiginosa). 
So delicious is the scent of the Sweet Briar that 
no Rose garden, nor in fact, any other garden of 
flowers should be without a bush or two, or a hedge 
of this native plant. Many varieties have been 
raised, producing double flowers, all of which are 
more or less fragrant, but none whose leaves possess 
the delicious perfume of the common kind. I con- 
sider but one variety worthy of cultivation for its 
flower alone, which is the Double Scarlet. 
Double Scarlet: bright rosy crimson, flowers small, perfectly 
double and deliciously fragrant; very pretty and free flowering, 
habit of growth moderate. 
