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a wet discoloured wound. The surface colour seems 

 to be lightly dusted on, and by taking a flower of a 

 middle orange colour, not too deep, one may see on the 

 lower petals, where the colour lightens towards the 

 little fringe of pointed slashings, how the brilliant 

 powdering gradually ceases, and here and there hoAV 

 the yellow ground is laid bare, where the surface of the 

 flower has received some gentle abrasion, more delicate 

 than can be done by hand, as of wind-rubbing of one 

 petal upon another. 



With the Scotch Briers I have a bush of Rosa 

 altaica, hardly distinguishable from the Burnet Rose, 

 except that the pale lemon-white flowers are a size 

 larger, the leaves a shade bluer, and the whole growth 

 rather more vigorous. 



The hybrid Brier, Stanwell Perpetual, is also on 

 the bank. It deserves the term " Perpetual " better 

 than any Rose I know, for besides its fairly full 

 bloom in early June, it bears a straggling succession 

 of its fragrant pale pink flowers throughout the 

 summer. 



There is a look about the leafage of the varieties 

 of Bosa rv.gosa that seems to fit them for association 

 with the Briers. The colour of the type rugosa is un- 

 pleasant to me, so I have only the paler pink one and 

 the white. But these are on the top of the bank, and 

 with them, now a large bush seven feet high, is the 

 good and long-blooming hybrid, Madame Georges 

 Bruant. A lovely thing is the newer double white 



