ROSE. 189 



The stalks of the musk rose are often too 

 weak to support the large bunches of flowers 

 that crown its branches. It therefore re- 

 quires a support to keep them from the earth, 

 unless it be planted with dwarf evergreens, 

 that form a natural and beautiful prop to these 

 delicate blossoms. 



THE YELLOW ROSE. —Lutea and Sulphurea. 



The single yellow brier rose, lutea, is said to 

 be a native of Germany, the south of France, 

 and Italy; and the single orange-coloured 

 rose, bicolor, is an Austrian rose. 



That it was through these countries we first 

 became acquainted with the yellow rose, 

 there can be no hesitation in stating; but that 

 they were originally brought from more 

 eastern climates, seems equally certain, since 

 no ancient author that we have consulted, 

 mentions a yellow rose of any description ; 

 and, had it been a flower created by the art 

 of grafting, as was formerly imagined, we 

 should, ere this, have discovered the fact. 

 Ludovico Verthema tells us, in 1503, that he 

 saw great quantities of yellow roses at Calicut, 

 from whence we have no doubt, both the sin- 



