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interest. Their parentage is generally not certainly known. They are 

 "crossbreeds" — quadroon bastards — whose exact position in the Rose 

 world is uncertain. Even if one can say of some of them that they are 

 the result of one known variety crossed with another, it means little, as 

 the father and mother are generally hybrids themselves, whose origin 

 is lost in the darkness of mixed generations. It is then with real satis- 

 faction, which all who are interested in the subject of hybridisation 

 will doubtless share, that I proceed to make known a hybrid Rose whose 

 father is known to be of a type not hitherto made use of, a type quite pure, 

 with marked characteristics. This hybrid is due to our able colleague Mod 

 sieur Pernet-Ducher the younger, a rosarian at Lyons, one of the luckiest 

 raisers in our country, to whom we owe some very fine varieties, especially 

 amongst hybrid Teas — the section of the future. 



The hybrid I speak of, obtained by Monsieur Pernetthe younger, takes 

 two forms : one a single flower, which all botanic gardens and lovers of 

 scientific curiosities ought to possess ; and the other a double flower, which 

 is worthy to contribute to the ornamentation of our gardens. 



The following is the origin of the hybrids in question: — The pollen 

 parent is the Rose known under the name of ' Persian Yellow ' ; the 

 mother is the variety ' Antoine Ducher.' The 1 Persian Yellow ' Hose, im- 

 ported from Persia in 1833 by Willock, passes as a double variety of the 

 Yellow Rose (Hose luted) cultivated for more than three centuries under 

 different names.* The ' Yellow Rose ' type, which has often been con- 

 founded with the ' Sulphur Rose,' presents a fixed variation, to be found 

 in collections under the name of the ' Capucine Rose ' (R. punicea, Mill.). 

 All gardeners know this variation. I say variation and not variety, as it 

 is not unusual to find both sorts of flowers on the same bush. 1 will not 

 give here the scientific description of liosa lutea and its derivatives, 

 ' Persian Yellow ' and 1 Capucine,' which those who are interested in the 

 matter can find in all the books. I will only point out that amongst the 

 characters which allow it at first sight to be distinguished from all other 

 species are that the colour of the bark is of a fallow brown and shining, the 

 flowers numerous but solitary, giving out a smell of bugs, which is any- 

 thing but pleasant. 



The Rose ' Antoine Ducher,' which has served as the seed -parent to 

 the two plants about which I am now speaking, is in itself a Hybrid 



* The following are the chief synonyms of this species published by Pronville : — 



R. lutea. Dodon. Pempt. 187.— Bauh. Hist. 2. 47. 



It. lutea simplex. Bauh. Pin. 483. — Besl. Eyst. vern. ord. 6 fol. 5. 



It. Eglanterta. Linn. Sp. 703. — Wibbl. Werth. 263.— Both. Germ. 1. 217-2. 553.— 

 Dbcand. Fl. fr. 4. 437.— Pers. Syn. 2. 47.— Meb. Par. 189 Bedout. Bos. 1. 69. t. 23. 



R. lutea. Mill. Diet. n. 11.— Duroi. Harbk. 2. 344.--M(ench. Meth. 688.— 



Willd. Sp. 2. 1064.— Lawr. Bos. t. 12.— Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 363 Ait. Kew. 3. 258.— 



Gmel. Bad.-Als. 2. 463.- Smith, in Bees in 1.— Bat. Enum. 157. — Pronv. Somm. 



R.fcetida. Herm. Diss. 18.— Allion. Ped. 2. 138 



R. chlorophylla. Ehr. Beit. 260. 



R. cerea. Bocssig. Bos. t. 2. 



Var. B. punicea. Floribus bicoloribus. 



R. sylvestris austriaca. Flore puniceo. Hort. Angl. 66. 



R. punicea. Mill. Diet. n. 12. — Duroi. Harbk. 3. 347. — Bcrcss. Bos. t. 5. 



R. cinnamomea. Both. Germ. 1. 217 and 2. 554. 



R. lutea bicolor. Jacq. Vind. 1. t. 1.— Lawk. Bos. t. 6.— Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 1077. 

 — Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. 258. — Smith, in Bees in 1. 

 R. Eglanteria punicea. Bedout. Bos. 1. 71. t. 24. 



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