34 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



ROSA LUTEA. 



THE YELLOW AUSTRIAN HOSE. 



BOTANISTS do not appear to agree in considering 

 Rosa Lutea and Rosa Sulphurea as distinct species. 

 But we will proceed regarding them as one. There 

 are hundreds, if not thousands, of varieties of the 

 rose family cultivated ; among such a progeny it is 

 rather remarkable that there are so few yellow, and 

 none black; yet there are no two colours more sought 

 for. The Rosa Sulphurea, or Double Yellow of 

 Lindley, has never been seen in a single state. It 

 is a very old inhabitant of the gardens of Europe, 

 though comparatively rare here. In Scotland, 

 twenty-five years ago, I saw a plant of it, which 

 was then considered a great curiosity, though it 

 appeared to have been there a quarter of a cen- 

 tury ; it always showed a profusion of buds, but 

 rarely a well blown flower; it never felt the 

 priming knife, being left to nature. History first 

 notices it as being cultivated in Turkey. Nothing 

 of its origin is as yet known, though supposition 

 gives it a locality on the fertile soil of the Chinese 

 empire. This fose has produced a great deal of 

 money to the French venders, especially those 



