HEN we speak of yellow roses I feel it is always with a 

 feeling of deeper interest tlian when considering white, 

 red or pink ones, and I believe I know the reason why : it 

 is because j'ellow roses are not usually yellow. That sounds 

 rather absurd, I know, but it is a fact. Sunburst, Mrs. Aaron 

 "V'^'ard, Lady Hillington, Mnie. Eavary, Golden Ophelia and a very 

 few others are yellow roses pure and simple, I grant you, but also 

 in the yellow rose class is, for example, Mrs. Gordon Sloane, 

 whose under jsetals are pink, overlaid with a metalic copper tone, 

 while the upper i3eta,ls are creamy-salmon, with just a suggestion 

 of pink, no j^ellow at all, and yet this unique and wonderful rose is 

 "classed" as yellow. By the way, the perfume of the Mrs. Gordon 

 Sloane is more like fruit than flowers, and certainly quite 

 delightful. 



Take Goelfrey Hejislow, whose flowers are an orange-crimson 

 without any yellow, yet it is also classed as yellow. Geoffrey Hen- 

 slow is a magnificent large, round, deep, striking and very free- 

 flowering rose. Mrs. Frank Bray is not really yellow either, 

 although so classed. Her blooms are copper-amber and pink, with 

 a true rose fragrance. A precious variety is Mrs. Frank Bray. 



Now, Magnolia is undeniably a consistent yellow, having no 

 tint of pink or flame or copper. Magnolia is often called the 

 water-lily or magnolia rose. I suppose it is because the enormous 

 guard petals and center of bright golden stamens bear a resemb- 

 lance to magnolia and water-lily blossoms, which they certainly 

 do. Queen Mary might have been a true yellow rose but for the 

 charmingly vivid crimson penciling the hybridizer tried so hard 

 to achieve, and I am glad he succeeded; it is that touch of bright 

 color that makes the Queen Mary rose (that and its tea-rose 

 fragrance) most welcome in our yellow rose gardens. That justly 

 famous rose, Mrs. Wemyss Quin, is copper, gold and crimson, too, 

 winning honors galore as a yellow rose. Odd, is it not? Evelyn 

 Dauntessy, of peach-amber and deep rose tints; Mrs. Charles 

 Lutaud, yellow-salf ron, with a scarlet blend ; Ferniehurst, copper- 

 fawn and pink; Donald MacDonald, orange-gold and carmine; 

 Louise Catherine Breslau, shrimp, copper and orange-red; Dor- 



