and flesh-white striped Gallica, Rosa Mundi, often called "York and Lancaster," we find far afield.
     Microphylla rubra, a tough bush with minute foliage and wicked prickles, bearing large, flat, rose-red blooms with pale pink edges, the "burr rose" of the upper South, grows in Arkansas as does a plant of the white, miniature, everblooming Multiflora which moved out from Virginia sixty years ago.'
     From many scattered parts of the country come expressions of praise and affection for the Sweet Brier of scented foliage and single pink bloom-the Eglantine of Gerard and Shakespeare and the great queen, the subject of Herrick's verse,

"From this bleeding hand of mine,
Take this sprig of Eglantine,
Which though sweet unto your smell,
Yet the fretful bryar will tell,
He who plucks the sweets shall prove
Many thorns to be in love."

In North Carolina old roses seem' to have enjoyed a blessed attention, and almost everything found elsewhere has :been preserved in gardens there. Something different is the "Hornet's Nest Rose." That is a name for a rose! It is a pink climber, said to be so called because of the way it arranges its clusters. The letter about it ends with a wish: "I wish you lived close enough to take the dirt road that leads to our house. I know you would enjoy the roses." Having a passion for dirt roads and grassy lanes, we murmur, "What greater delight?"
     Among our treasured possessions are fourteen long envelopes, each containing a dried specimen of a North Carolina 'old-fashioned rose, sent us a year ago from another garden. On the outside of No. 7 is written, "Very double pink climber. The Cabbage Rose. My mother obtained it from Waldensians (Italian Presbyterians at Valdese, N. C., 8 miles from our home). They called it `Hornet's Nest Rose."'
     Another envelope contains â blooming spray' of the rose Viridiflora, its full bloom just as green as its China-like foliage. In another is the richly crimson, velvety, double Agrippina or Cramoisi Supérieur of the bush form. (The rarer climbing form is growing in Texas.) A pink Moss is marked as being "monthly"