Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut; in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia; in Georgia and North Carolina, especially in Burke County; in Missouri, Louisiana, and in California. We wonder what other flower has such a wide distribution as the old rose!
     In our correspondence gardens we find a lively assortment of "lovesome" old things. From Arizona comes a picture of a Yellow Banksia spread over an arbor like a grape-vine, with space beneath for tables and chairs--"a pleasant paradise." On a ranch in Arizona Harison's Yellow and Red Boursault have a place in the house-yard. These are two greatly traveled roses. Early settlers into the Southwest carried Harison's Yellow. The settlers in Missouri planted it on many homesteads. Our corre-spondent got her Harison bush from an old rose brought to Prescott in the '70's from Texas, where this rose has been so long localized that it goes by the name of "Texas Rose."
     The Red Boursault has a different story. Carried from New Jersey in the '60's by the bride of a territorial governor, this rose was grown about the log-cabin which became the governor's mansion. According to the tale, the long journey to Prescott was made by boat around Cape Horn to San Francisco, and overland to Prescott. "Here it (the rose) was planted and thrived, althb the bride soon faded and died." Some day we hope this Boursault will send a shoot to the East, where it will be planted among fellow roses with a history and will be known by the name it bears in Prescott --"the McCormick Rose."
     From Arkansas we hear about the old Red Damask rose, carried west from Tennessee. Probably this is the red Gallica, called often Red Damask and Damask Rose, just about double, rose-red with golden stamens, a gay, fragrant rose in the June garden--old as early New England and Virginia--so old in England that it is believed by some writers to have been the rose of the House of Lancaster in the Wars of the Roses--so old before that that it is lost in antiquity. Red Gallica has been an inveterate traveler and lives tenaciously in many parts of the country. The double white rose, Rosa Alba flore-pleno, rose of the House of York in the Wars of the Roses, we hear about from Massachusetts to Kansas, in between and beyond. The rose-red