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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



— that is, since the evolution of flowers and the development 

 of anthophily among insects. The new habit would seem tc) 

 be the result of observation and experience. 



ROSE GALLICA 



By Miss S. F. Sanborn. 



TT THEN I was a child, Rosa Gallica grew in my father's 

 garden. I have been anxious tO' obtain it for mine 

 and have succeeded. One bush, however, bears flowers of a 

 delicate blush hue, instead of the usual deep red and has num- 

 erous petals quite warm in texture. The rose was transplanted 

 from a pasture and brought under cultivation near high born 

 plants of the same order. The experience of a neighbor was 

 similar. Two attempts yielded flowers of different colors and 

 as exquisite in finish as any hot-house product. 



These facts bear out the statement of Alphonso Wood, 

 who says that this common red rose of our gardens has given 

 rise to not less than three hundred named varieties catalogued 

 as velvet, carmine, York and Lancaster, tricolor, picotee, etc. 

 The plant will be found naturalized in the provinces throughout 

 New England, and as far west as Ohio. 



Professor Wood's Manual should be in the possession of 

 every student of the flora of the north-eastern portion of the 

 United States. Some botanists well up in the flora of New 

 Hampshire found a Potemtilla which was a stranger to them. 

 It proved to be the PotciitiUa recta given in the seventh edition 

 of Gray, but aot in the flfth or sixth. Wood, however, de- 

 scribed it in his usual graphic style more than forty years ago, 

 disproving at once all inferences one might draw as to its re- 

 cent introduction. 



