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probably from the common wild pink-flowered China 

 Rambler. The Red Rambler was sent to this country in 

 1878. Messrs. Turner of Slough bought the stock and gave 

 the name Crimson Rambler. Few roses produce flowers 

 in such profusion, for one plant may produce quite 6000 in 

 bloom at the same time. R. microphylla, 2 native of Japan 

 and China, was introduced in 1824. This rose is known 

 in France as Rose Chataigne, because of its thorny fruit. 

 Unlike the fruit of most roses it is sweetly scented. 

 R. Wichuraiana, named after the German botanist, 

 Wichura, came to England by way of the U.S.A. It was 

 sent to Brussels in 1886 from Japan. An American named 

 Perkins crossed this rose with the old Hybrid Perpetual, 

 Mme Gabriel Luizet, thereby producing the formerly 

 popular but now much maligned Dorothy Perkins. 

 R. Wichuraiana (the type) has the wild rose perfume, 

 but many of the hybrids are unfortunately scentless. 



In 1838 Sir H. Willock, Envoy Extraordinary and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary at Teheran, brought from 

 Persia R. lutea. In 1900 M. Pernet Ducher gave us 

 Soleil d'Or (a cross between the Persian yellow rose and 

 Antoine Ducher), by no means a notable rose, but inter- 

 esting as the forerunner of the Pernetian roses. Rayon 

 d'Or (also raised by M. Pernet Ducher in 1910) was the 

 first good modern yellow rose, and the parent of many of 

 the fine yellow roses now grown. The best of the Per- 

 netian roses, however, is Juliet (1910), for she is a very 

 vigorous grower, and her fragrance is exquisite. Unfor- 

 tunately she inherits the tendency to black spot, character- 

 istic of the Persian yellow rose. One is always told that 

 in the city of Adelaide the Pernetian roses flourish 

 exceedingly, on account of the dry atmosphere. 



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