otloriferous smell ; but also because it is the honour 
and ornament of our English Scepter, as by the 
coniunction appeareth in the vniting of those most 
royall houses of Lancaster and Yorke. Which 
pleasant floures deserue the chiefest place in Crownes 
and garlands, as Anacreon Thius a most antient 
Greeke Poet, affirmes.” We will follow Gerard 
through his translation of the Poet. 
‘ The Rose is the honour and heautie of floures, 
The Rose is the care and loue of the Spring, 
The Rose is the pleasure of th’ heauenly powres : 
The Boy of faire Venus, Cytheras darliug. 
Doth wrap in his head round with garlands of Rose, 
When to the dance of the Graces he goes.’ 
The novel variety of Rose, which we have now 
figured, has excited considerable attention, and is 
known by the French name Jaune Desprez. It 
is equally remarkable for its beauty and its fra- 
grance, and suitable for standards or training. Mr. 
Rivers in his Amateur’s Guide, says It was orig- 
inated by M. Desprez about seven years since, and 
is still, and will be for some time to come a very 
popular rose. It is, most probably a hybrid between 
the Yellow Chinese and a Noisette rose of some 
kind ; it sold for a high price in France, when first 
sent forth to the Rose world, as ‘its name was very 
tempting, for a yellow fragrant Noisette Rose was 
thought to be worth any price. Its rosy copper- 
coloured flowers are very singular, and so power- 
fully fragrant, that one plant will perfume a large 
garden in the cool weather of autumn. A pillar of 
this rose, twelve or twenty feet high, would be a 
grand object on a well-kept lawn.” 
