

THE ROSE. 59 



From California we have as follows: The famous 
Gold of Ophir Rose-tree on the Maddox farm in 
Eldorado Co., Cal., was recently destroyed by a 
violent wind. Its stem was 26 inches in circum- 
ference, and the shrub itself had grown around 
and over an oak fifty feet high, stopping in its 
upward growth only because there was nothing 
upon which it could climb higher. When in full 
bloom a splendid mass of golden flowers concealed 
the oak entirely from view with a blaze of glory, 
which many persons have travelled far to see. 
This rose was no doubt the Cromatella or Cloth of 
Gold, a hybrid of the Noisette Rose. 



