74 THE SUMMER ROSE GARDEN. 



also a double yellow rose, said to have been raised 

 from seed in America, and sent from thence to 

 this country about four years since: this has 

 proved one of the most beautiful of yellow roses ; 

 its flowers before expansion are globular, but a 

 hot sun makes them expand and lose much of 

 their beauty. It is a more robust grower than 

 the Double Yellow Sweet Briar; its flowers are 

 also a little larger, and do not fade so soon. The 

 Single Yellow is the most brilliant yellow rose we 

 yet possess ; and it will probably be the parent of 

 some double varieties, its equal in colour. 



To this peculiar family of roses a few new va- 

 rieties have been added. Cuivre Rouge, a curious 

 hybrid, partaking of the Boursault Rose, with 

 smooth thornless branches and dull reddish single 

 flowers, and the Superb Double Yellow Briar, a 

 seedling raised by Mr. Williams, of Pitmaston, 

 from the same rose, and, I believe, at the same 

 time, as the Double Yellow Briar. This has larger 

 and more double flowers, but they are perhaps not 

 so bright in colour, which might be owing to the 

 excessive wet weather during its flowering season, 

 as it bloomed here for the first time in the summer 

 of 1839. A third variety is also in my possession, 

 the Globe Yellow, a very pretty pale yellow rose, 

 of humble growth: this variety was raised in 

 Italy. 



A new yellow rose has been given to us from 

 that land of flowers, Persia. This was introduced 



