with strong, wrinkly, veiny, somewhat shining foliage. In the autumn we got two well-advanced suckers. These have bloomed for two years under our insatiable scrutiny; not so freely in 1935, beginning about June 25; very gorgeously during this past summer, beginning a little earlier and continuing several weeks. Now our bushes are pushing up and spreading and will be six feet high another year. In 1935 many- strange characteristics stared at us, but we recorded these points with restraint and waited to make sure that the differences held true.
     New upright stalks of this year, as of last year, are well prickled up with large and smaller red prickles--no bristles--on a smooth, pale, whitish green bark. When the blooming shoots break out next year, as of this year and last year, they will have one or two or no prickles, but the peduncles of the blooms will be covered with bright red, bristling hairs. These hairs extend to the calyx, which is a rather shallow affair, shaped like a thimble or a turban, instead of a nice globe. The young prickles on the new wood do not mature in quantity, and we find the old wood not very thorny. On both young and old wood, the leaves are made up of nine leaflets quite as often as they are of seven and more often than of five, the end leaflet being frequently two and a half inches long, while the pair at the base end may be as small as a fingernail. The flower is finely circular in outline, full, petals curling over on the edges, slightly drooping; the cupped bloom is very pretty viewed from any angle. The pink is rosy, not harsh, deeper than the back of a Radiance petal; sometimes the color shades off a little on the edges but is fairly constant. The fragrance is old-timey.
     To come to any sort of understanding with this foreigner in our garden, we had to retrace our path into the history of rose families so we might locate the red bristling hairs, the turban, the nine leaflets, and the whitish green young growth, as well as the red-dyed young foliage. We found ourselves going back to Clusius, who in 1583 described a rose he discovered growing at Frankfort-on-the-Main. There followed a succession of records of this rose by other writers. In 1820 Lindley described a rose he called Rosa turbinate, saying that the rose has many as-pects of the Damascene but its turbinate calyx and reddish hairs set it apart. In "The Genus Rosa," Miss Willmott calls it Rosa