bush. We are calling this one "Mrs. Skinner," the name of the lady from whom we bought the bush.
     And another is still deeper pink, more the color of the brighter blooms on an Old Blush China, with a white shank to the petals and having much less fulness of flower. There is a sporting chance that this may be R. noisettiana purpurea, Le Rosier Noisette à Fleurs Rouges. In "Les Roses" we find these notes: "In general the Rosa noisettiana with the rose-colored flowers* is smaller in all its features than the Rosier de Philippe Noisette, the Blush Noisette of 1817. Before expansion the Blush Noisette is flesh color which wears away in blooming to the point of becoming almost white, while the rose-colored variety has petals of `rose-vif which persists and becomes more intense by the time the petals fall. It blooms from June to frost."
     By observing throughout next summer we may be able to name this one, "Le Rosier Noisette à Fleurs Rouges," but for the present we are calling it Mrs. Malcolm Rorty because she found it. I regret that I have no photographs of the last two but they came into our midst too late for photographs of good bloom this year.
     These are especially delightful old roses with dainty, charming buds. They bloom successively and very freely in great, fragrant clusters. The bushes are neat and graceful, and their lovely blossoms seem full of life and spirit.

II.  GALLICAS

     Judging from the present contents of some very old gardens, rose-growing was quite extensive in Calvert County, Maryland, during the Colonial and early Federal periods, when Gallica, Centifolia, Alba, Moss, Damascena, and the Briers were the popular forms of garden roses. On many of the oldest places we have repeatedly found the Pink Cabbage, a red variety with purple shadings called Bishop's Rose, Centifolia, by Mary Lawrance and Evêque, Gallica**, by Redouté, the very pale pink, flat-flowered Alba, Clustering Maiden's Blush, the old
     *The seeming inconsistency in translation here in due to a disagreement between Thory's text and Redouté's picture. Thory calls the rose "R. noisettiana purpurea, à fleurs roses," but the accompanying plate is titled "R. noisettiana purpurea à fleurs rouges," but they are evidently meant to apply to the same rose.--EDITOR.
     **But Redouté also says it is called Grand Eveque in amateurs' gardens.--EDITOR.

Pink Moss with cup-shaped bloom of deep rosy hue, the red Four Seasons, Damascena, not found so often as the others, old yellow Briers and the R. gallica officinalis, Apothecaries' Rose, locally known as the "Tulip Rose" and familiar to many by that name only.
     We found R. gallica officinalis, or Apothecaries' Rose, on our own place growing in a sort of shrubbery formed by many root-ramifications from an old rose now gone. Again we found it in an old orchard, running wild, far from the house but probably near where once had been a house and garden. We found it in an abandoned garden, formally laid out in a square adjoining the house, the entire garden made up of the very old sorts listed above.
     Thory, in the text of "Les Roses," with paintings by Redouté, says that R. gallica officinalis grows to 3 feet high and that it will vary in size of flowers according to the soil in which it is grown. We think this is true of height as well.
     Our rose is spreading, not entirely upright; prickles small, unequal, scattering, and not very strong; foliage oval, pointed, somewhat pendent, rather dry to touch, downy underneath, finely serrate; color a light green with an olivish shade. (The colored plate of this rose in Miss Kingsley's book, "Roses and Rose-Growing," shows this olivish green shade in the foliage. In "Les Roses," the description is "vert-clair.") The petiole is glandulous but has no prickles. Bloom is deep rose-pink, a color which may be described as the deepest shade of "rose-vif'" or a light spinel-red or a light rose-red. (Miss Kingsley's picture of the flower gives the same color as our rose.) The flower is semi-double, beautifully formed, enlivened by gleaming yellow stamens and a sizable pistil. There are two simple sepals, three compound. The blooms come singly or in twos, on strong hispid peduncles. Its seed-pod is round, large, orange to carmine. The effect of the blooming plant is lively in color and competent in form. It holds its strength well.
     In the article "Old World Roses" by Mr. Bunyard in the American Rose Annual for 1930, page 28, the author says that R. gallica officinalis, is, perhaps, the original rose of Provins. In "Les Roses" it is called "Rosier de Provins, ordinaire."
      Tradition has it that the Gallica rose was introduced into