34 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



seven feet high, making a very superb pillar ; the 

 foliage is large, of a pale silvery gieen; the flowers 

 are very perfectly cupped, of a rose-while colour. 

 The Double Yellow Sweet Brier* will be nearly as 

 difficult to find as the Yellow Moss ; all I have seen 

 with that name are mere -interlopers, being the Eosa 

 Harrisonii, Williams' Yellow Scotch, and some not 

 even meriting the name of yellow. Strong shoots 

 of the common sweet brier make very good stocks 

 to bud or graft upon, and are extensiv»?ly used in 

 England for that pur^^ose. 



ROSA LTTEA 



THE YELLOW AUSTRIAN KOSE. 



Botanists do not appear to agree in . considering 

 Eosa 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 



* The Austrian Brier, or, as it is called. Single Yellow Sweet 

 Brier, is very common in many old gardens. The flowers are 

 equally as bright as the Harrisonii, with one side of the petals, 

 in certain stages, inclining to red. 



