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cold than by low and damp situations ; and 

 we do not recollect having met with it in 

 flower except in spots open to the east, which 

 generally is considered the most pernicious 

 to plants. The foliage of the double yellow 

 rose is small, and of a beautiful bluish green, 

 very light on the under side, whilst the stalks 

 being of a delicate yellow-green, form a de- 

 lightful graduation to the golden flower. 



THE EVER-BLOWING CHINA ROSE. — 



Semperflorens. 



When this species of rose was first intro- 

 duced, in 1789, it was considered to be so de- 

 licate a plant, that it was kept constantly in the 

 stove, and the smallest cuttings were sold for 

 many guineas each. It was soon found to thrive 

 in a common green-house, where it blossomed 

 the whole winter, to the great admiration and 

 no small amazement of all who could obtain 

 sight of this far-fetched flower. As it was 

 found to be of so easy a propagation, in a few 

 years every country casement had the pride 

 of sheltering this Chinese prodigy, until the 

 cottager, for v/ant of pence to purchase flower- 

 pots, planted it in the open ground ; when, 



