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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 century ; it always 

 showed a profusion of buds, but rarely a well-blown 

 flower ; it never felt the pruning knife, being left 

 to nature. History first notices it as being cultivated 

 in Turkey. Nothing of its origin is as yet known, 

 though supposition give it a locality on the fertile 

 soil of the Chinese empire. This rose has produced 

 a great deal of money to the French venders, espe- 

 cially those charlatans who make their market in 

 strange places, where they never intend to appear 

 ao^ain under the same name, ii has travelled from 

 east to west as the Double Yellow Provins^ Double 

 Yellow Moss, &c. The foliage is small, of a pale 

 yellowish-green, the wood rather slender and weakj 

 studded wilh small thorns; the branches spreading. 

 There is a large plant of it that has been in the 

 garden of the late Henry Pratt, Esq., near this city, 

 for perhaps thirty years, and has never b^en known 

 to produce a perfect flower. It is said that the 



