planted suckers grew to 5 feet, maybe more. The bush is strong and upright, making a close, upstanding plant. Straight green stalks, reddish on the sunny side, with prickles both large and small, red, dilated at the base, sharp, straight and down slanting. We have not observed any prickles hooked enough to be called falcate. Foliage quite large, 3, 5, or 7 leaflets, longer than oval, not much pointed, with serrations mostly single, occasionally double, with a good deal of red shading in the green of the young growth; upper surface of the leaflets smooth, under surface lighter and downy, sometimes with reddish veins. Petiole rather fine and long for the leaflets, but strong and glandulous. Many petioles are without prickles but some have a few between the stipule and end leaflet. Stipule is adnate, two-pointed, glandulous. Bracts are broad and fleshy, single or two opposed, glandulous. Both stipules and bracts are foliaceous at times.
     At its best, the bloom is quite double, coming out cupped, later flattening and quartering somewhat, making a neat, showy, large flower, of strong, upright habit. The color is a deep rose, sometimes carmine, shaded with purple, with short white shanks and occasional white streaks. The velvety petals are notched and cordate in the outer ranks, smaller, folded and ribbed, neatly laid down on the inner lines, as the illustration shows. The stamens are orange-yellow. Pistil is free and made up of many styles. The flower grows on rather a short peduncle, green, strong, hairy, which conforms more and less into the calyx, as the calyx varies, a point we have observed often.
     From the above features, form of bush, green, upright stalk, peduncle, and so on, including autumn flowering of excellent form, one would expect the seed-pod to be an orange and red Damascena form. It has been and may be that, but perhaps more often is an orange-red, quite round hip, more like the Gallica. Few hips are well formed.
     The sepals, two simple and three compound or all foliaceous in form, do not reflex, as far as we have noted. At times there are six sepals instead of five. The fragrance is free and "oldtimey." The rose blooms all season. It propagates by suckers.
    We have spoken of this rose for more than two years as the "Brome Perpetual," naming it for Mrs. Brome from whom we

bought Creek Side. We now believe that it is Rose du Roi à Fleurs Pourpres, a form of R. damascena portlandica.
     The classification of Damascena roses in "Les Roses" gives R. damascena coccinea, Rosier de Portland, which is sub-named R. (gallica) portlandica and R. (bifera) portlandica. We wonder if the great Thory had "wallowing waters" with the seed-pods that he gave both Gallica and Bifera sub-classifications. He lists Coccinea under this description, "Les tubes des calices sont renflés au milieu et comme amincis aux deux extrémités."
     We have this note from an article by Stephen F. Hamblin: "Modern garden roses owe much to Damask. The first R. gallica-damascena cross was made in England about 1800 and was called Duchess of Portland. 'Phis was once an impressive group-one hundred and thirty varieties-but has been lost since about 1850."
     Miss Lawrence's R. damascena, Red Monthly, shows many points of our rose as does R. damascena coccinea of Redouté, but neither is so double as our best blooms. There is, moreover, no shading of purple to be found in any Portland or Monthly in either work, so we have to close those great books at this point.
      In Jamain and Forney we have this: Portland, Rose du Roi. Bush quite vigorous; branches of medium thickness and straight; bark green, red on side to the sun, armed with little prickles, very numerous, unequal, very sharp. Foliage, "vertclair," lighter under, a little wrinkled, 5 to 7 leaflets, oblong, bordered with fine serrations. Petiole fine, long, pubescent, with no prickles. Flower, 7 to 9 centimeters, of a good form, upright, spreading, generally solitary, rarely two or three. Color, "beau-rouge-vif, carminé, à reflet violacé." Petals of the circumference large, obovate, with others smaller in proportion as they approach the center. Peduncle short with numerous glandulous hairs. Sepals foliaceous. Excessively remontant. Hardy. "Cette rose a été obtenue en 1819 par M. Souchet, jardinier du fleuriste de Sèvres, et n'a été livrée au commerce que quelques années plus tard. A cette époque M. le Comte Leleieur était directeur des jardins royaux et comme le fleuriste de Sèvres y'était employé, on lui a attribué par erreur l'honneur d'avoir obtenu cette magnifique variété."
     I have quoted the above especially for the dates. If this