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In the other sort the petals are a rich crimson, flaked 

 with white ; it is a very handsome rose, comparatively 

 modern, and is the Rosa Mundi of the Botanical Magazine, 

 t 1794. 1 The third double rose I wish to notice is one 

 commonly called the yellow cabbage. It has, however, 

 no relationship to the cabbage rose, and iU origin is 

 unknown, but it was a great favourite with the old 

 rote-growers, and is now again slowly coming into 

 cultivation. It was first described by Clusius, who 

 noticed it among some coloured paper model* of gardens 

 sent to him from Constantinople. Limlley describes 

 the flowers as ' very large, of an exquisitely delicate, 

 transparent, yellow colour ' ; f and as I write with the 

 flower before me, just picked, I can answer for the 

 truth of the description. The weak point is that the 

 flowers seldom fully open ; they probably require a 

 hotter sun than they usually get here, both before 

 and at the time of flowering ; but oven in this 

 unopened state it was a favourite with the Dutch 

 painters, especially Van Huysum. There is a fine 

 picture by him (belonging to Lord Aahburton), in 

 which this rose in its half-opened state forms part of 



* I may refer to a paper In the (j<irdt*fri Magazine for Aug. 12th, 

 1893, tu which I put together all that I could find of the history of the 

 York and Lancaster ro. 



1 Lindley called it Ji. ndphurea plena. It* correct name in R. 

 \emitpkatrica. 



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