By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 285 



colours, and the impletion of the flower. The older books on 

 gardening make no mention of any varieties of Scotch Roses ; 

 even the last edition of Miller's Dictionary does not notice 

 any double one. In the second edition of the Hortus Kew- 

 ensis, though the list there given of the cultivated Roses is 

 large, not more than six varieties of the Scotch Rose are 

 mentioned, only one of which is double, and that even is 

 not properly a Scotch Rose ; so that they are, in fact, alto- 

 gether new subjects to a writer. 



The first appearance of the Double Scotch Roses was in 

 the nursery of Messrs. Dickson and Brown (now Dickson 

 and Turnbull) of Perth, between twenty and thirty years 

 since. I am indebted to Mr. Robert Brown, one of the 

 partners of the firm at the above period, for the following 

 account of their origin. In the year 1793, he and his bro- 

 ther transplanted some of the wild Scotch Roses from the 

 Hill of Kinnoul, in the neighbourhood of Perth, into their 

 nursery garden : one of these bore flowers slightly tinged 

 with red, from which a plant was raised, whose flowers ex- 

 hibited a monstrosity, appearing as if one or two flowers 

 came from one bud, which was a little tinged with red : 

 these produced seed, from whence some semi-double flow- 

 ering plants were obtained ; and by continuing a selection 

 of seed, and thus raising new plants, they in 1802 and 

 1803, had eight* good double varieties to dispose of; of 

 these' they subsequently increased the number, and from 



* » i T Imvp hrtm able to ascertain, the eight sorts were the small 



* As nearly as 1 lia\e t>eenaDit to a^enai , fo 



Me, the smaUyelhw, the latys blush, another lady's blush with smooth foot- 

 ,,alk>, the red, the light red, the dark marbled, and the large two-eoloured. 



