America from the Kip farm in the vicinity of New York City, where there was a fine rose-garden, and that Mr. Kip gave General George Washington a Gallica plant when he visited the farm after he became President of the United States. Tradition does not say that this was Washington's first Gallica, and one could hardly believe it to be, for it seems very probable that Gallica roses came into Virginia and Lord Baltimore's colony long before the Revolution. Our own place had a houseprobably a garden-in 1670. I am sure those early settlers had their Gallicas.
     The Red Gallica differs in points from the R. gallica officinalis. The bush goes to 3 feet plus and is much straighter. Its foliage seems a little crisper, although otherwise the same. The prickles are stronger. Its bloom is not so full, the stamens a bit tawny. There are two bold differences in petals and sepals. The heart-shaped petals are velvety red with blackish shadings, a deep rose-red. Sepals are foliated, as the picture of the back shows-a very pretty feature, indeed, against the back ring of petals. Its seed-pod is round, and orange-red. The shadings of the petals and the sepals mark the rose apart.
     In "Les Roses" is a picture by Redouté of the R. gallica, Maheka, Flore Simplici; La Maheka à Fleurs Presque Simples, or La Belle Sultane. It is a deep rose-red with blackish shadings on the edges, "échancrés en coeur" and has foliaceous sepals the same as our rose has. Thory says in the text that it is one of the best old Gallicas. Ours, in all likelihood, is La Belle Sultane.
     The Spotted Gallica probably is not of pure breed. Its growth is spreading enough to be called subprostrate. Foliage, prickles, stalks, and other features are good Gallica. The bloom is about the same size and fulness as the red variety. Its basic color is the deep rose of Officinalis, and the spots are a soft purple. This rose, however, breaks the line of its family by having a seed-pod, not round like Gallica but of a pear shape, strangled at the top like one form of Damascena and like some of the wild roses. It is orange-red, mounting to real red at the top, with a disk quite black, and has glandulous hairs about the upper part. We had several of these seeds, all alike, and we plan to grow them. Whatever we get will be interesting.

     Across St. Leonard's Creek from our farm is an old plantation where, long before the war of the states, there grew under the pantry window an old rose called the Faded Pink Monthly. Before the war, the cook took a cutting from this rose and grew it near her cabin door.
     The bloom is not like the Marbled Gallica of Miss Lawrance,

being entirely off it in color, and not in the least like the bloom of Rosa Mundi. It misfits with Redouté's R. gallica flore marmoreo in having spots of purple instead of spots of a paler pink, although in form and basic color it is the same. Later writers list spotted Gallicas but their descriptions are too brief for identification. We should make a name for this very attractive rose but, so far, we are calling it "Spotted Gallica," having no other spotted one.

III.  ROSE DU ROI À FLEURS POURPRES

When trout-fishing one has sometimes to go through what I like to call "wallowing waters" which bother the head as well as the feet. We have had some wallowing waters to go through with this rose. It was not until we transplanted suckers and grew them in rich beds for all we could get that we made any progress
.      The original find was a group of about fifteen suckers and a remnant of the old plant in poor soil on an old planting-line on our own place. This old line evidently headed a series of "falls," the land from the hill-top where the old house stands being stepped away in wide terraces now washed and grass-grown, which in times past must have been part of an extensive artificial landscape, the "falls" dropping off to the east, south, and west, toward the water; interesting natural evidences but of no definite help in placing a date on a rose so found, yet suggestive.
     We have looked elsewhere for this rose and found it only once. This was on the Taney place on the Patuxent River, now the home of Benjamin Hance, Esq. Records of a will in Annapolis show that in 1708 one Benjamin Hance left this place to his heirs. The fine old house, the broad corn- and tobacco-fields along the river, have been scenes of lively social and political events in the past. It was the birthplace and boyhood home of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney,-an old place, well kept throughout its history. On this place are wellpreserved roses from earliest times. Among the suckers which Mr. Hance gave us was one plant of this rose. This is another early location with suggestive associations.
     Our notes and observations on this rose are as follows. In the poor location the bushes were about 3 feet in height. Trans-