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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 Bosa Mundi of the Botanical Magazine, 

 t. 1794.^ 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 its origin is 

 unknown, but it was a great favourite with the old 

 rose-growers, and is now again slowly coming into 

 cultivation. It was first described by Clusius, who 

 noticed it among some coloured paper models of gardens 

 sent to him from Constantinople. Lindley describes 

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

 transparent, yellow colour ' ; ^ 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 even 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 Ashburton), in 

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



1 I may refer to a paper in the Gardeners' Magazine for Aug. 12th, 

 1893, in which I pnt together all that I could find of the history of the 

 York and Lancaster rose. 



2 Lindley called it R, sulphurea plena. Its correct name is H, 

 hemisphaerica. 



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