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quantities. We want a Rambler Rose with pure- 

 white flowers as large and as freely produced as in the 

 Crimson Rambler. Also we want yellow Ramblers, 

 yellow Hybrid Perpetuals, more yellow Hybrid Teas 

 and Tea Roses. 



Where can we look for these yellow Roses? Now, 

 of wild Roses with clear yellow flowers there are only 

 known six species: the Simple-leaved Rose (R. 

 persica), Austrian Briar (R. foetida), Sulphur Rose 

 (R. hemisphaerica), Mrs. Aitchison's Rose (7?. Ecae) 

 — all natives of Asia Minor and Persia to central 

 Asia (Austrian Briar is also found in the Crimea) — 

 Father Hugh's Rose (R. Hugonis), and Lindley's Rose 

 (R. xanthina) natives of northern China. The latter, 

 though named in 1820 from a Chinese drawing and 

 long cultivated in Peking where double and single- 

 flowered forms occur, was only introduced to cultiva- 

 tion in April, 1908, by F. N. Meyer of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. Father Hugh's Rose was 

 raised at Kew in 1899. The others have been 

 known for a long period and some have been and still 

 are being used by Rose breeders. The Double Sul- 

 phur or Yellow Provence Rose has been known since 

 the seventeenth century. The Yellow Persian was 

 brought from Persia in 1838, by Sir Henry Wil- 

 lock, and is presumably a form of R. foetida. The 



