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so lavish in its "toll to passing June," and so eloquent 

 of old gardens and the days when simple things were the 

 best beloved. The foliage has a faint sweet-brier fra- 

 grance, and the long, fiercely armed branches are set from 

 end to end with semi-double Roses. Mrs. Earl says 

 it was called the "Yellow Wreath Rose" in country 

 neighbourhoods, which seems more apt than many 

 plant names. The bush of Harisoni is rather straggly 

 in habit, and I have found that planting three together, 

 as with StanwelPs Perpetual, secures a better form. 



The Persian Yellow Rose is more conspicuous, more 

 double, and more golden than Harisoni, but has the same 

 wreathlike growth, the long branches being literally 

 weighted to the ground with their yellow burden. The 

 term "Austrian," as applied to these Roses, is misleading, 

 as they are Oriental in origin. Harisoni was raised in 

 this country in the early part of the nineteenth century. 

 Its parents are said to be the Austrian Yellow and a 

 Scotch Brier. These yellow briers are lovely planted 

 in wide borders with white and purple Persian Lilacs, 

 lavender and white and buff Flag Irises, pink and white 

 and blue Lupines, and bushes of hoary Southernwood 

 and Rue, with Nepeta and Stachys lanata along the front, 

 i ROSA RUGOSA. Few gardens are without one or more 

 representatives of the fine Rugosa class. While this 

 good and reliable Rose was introduced to the gardening 



