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THE DOUBLE YELLOW EOSE. 



4 (ROSA SULPHUREA.) 



Rosier Jaune de Soufre. 



THE origin of this very old and beautiful rose, 

 like that of the Moss Eose, seems lost in ob- 

 scurity: it was first introduced to this country 

 by Nicholas Lete, a merchant of London, who 

 brought it from Constantinople towards the end 

 of the sixteenth century ; it was reported to have 

 been sent from Syria to that city. The first 

 plants brought to England soon died ; and another 

 London merchant, Jean de Franqueville, again 

 introduced it, and took much pains to propagate 

 and distribute it among the principal gardens in 

 England : in this he fully succeeded. In the 

 botanical catalogues it is made a species, said to be 

 a native of the Levant, and never to have been 

 seen in a wild state bearing single flowers. It is 

 passing strange, that this double rose should have 

 been always considered a species. Nature has 

 never yet given us a double flowering species to 

 raise single flowering varieties from ; but exactly 

 the reverse. We are compelled, therefore, to 

 consider the parent of this rose to be a species 

 bearing single flowers.* 



* The wild single state of the Double Yellow Eose was found 

 by Dr. Thomson in the "Western Himalaya, in the province of 

 Kishtevar, near Kashmir, at 7,500 feet elevation, and by Griffith 



