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to the gardens of the Horticultural Society of 

 London in 1838, and is now called the Persian 

 Yellow Rose. In habit it is so exactly like the 

 Single Yellow Austrian Briar as not to be dis- 

 tinguished from it: it seems to grow readily 

 budded on the Dog Rose, as my plants this season 

 have made shoots three feet or more in length : in 

 colour it is of a deeper yellow than Rosa Harri- 

 sonii ; its flowers are quite double, cupped, and not 

 so liable to become reflexed as that very pretty and 

 brilliant rose. Like the Yellow Austrian Briar, 

 it loves a pure air and rich soil, and will probably 

 bloom as freely. It bloomed beautifully in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society, even on a 

 very small plant in a pot. Numerous seedlings 

 have been raised from Rosa Harrisonii, but all that 

 have come under my notice have proved inferior 

 to their parent. 



To bloom them in perfection Austrian Briars 

 require a moist soil and dry pure air ; but little 

 manure is necessary, as they grow freely in any 

 tolerably good and moist soil ; neither do they 

 require severe pruning, but merely the strong 

 shoots shortened, and most of the twigs left on 

 the plant, as they, generally, produce flowers in 

 great abundance. 



No family of roses offers such an interesting 

 field for experiments in raising new varieties from 

 seed as this. First, we have the Copper Austrian, 

 from which, although it is one of the oldest roses 



