cent beneath, on a petiole, pubescent, not glandular, occasionally with a prickle or two, but with a fine thread-like channel above, not always to the full length as in the Frankfort. Flowers are in a corymb, of medium size, flesh-pink with white edges, about double, with petaloids among the stamens. There is a distinctive scent which seems indescribable. I find in my notebook, "Fragrance. Yes, but I do not know what it is." Both the peduncle and frequently the calyx-tube are bristly, not glandular, with sepals long, winged, deciduous. Fruit seldom sets here. Within the Alba group, variety Rubicunda, lie three very old roses, Maiden's Blush, a smaller sized bloom in lesser clusters, the Great Maiden's Blush with blooms three inches across in greater clusters, both blush with white edges, and the rose Celestial, of a deeper shade of pink. The Maiden's Blush roses have a blunt calyx-tube, like a thimble, while the Celestial has a sort of urn-shaped calyx-tube.
     In descriptive words, Frankfort and the above seem quite alike. Eyes disprove that. The Frankfort is a darkish green, rough-and-ready looking bush; like a good working dirt gardener. The pink Alba indelicately green, at this time taking on a lovely autumn salmon color. The bush is lady-like, pastellish; neat and clean. Both are tough and enduring.
     These variables of the old Elizabethan garden roses are, however, not the only problems to be found in gardens of a hundred years ago. From 1789, when the two China roses, pink and red, were introduced, another line of hybridizing was going on. From 1817, when the Bourbon and the Noisette came in, the use of them added something. In the early part of the last century, rosemen had not only the June-blooming kinds, but, as well, four everblooming kinds to play with. They mixed them up this way and that, with the result that they cracked the everblooming feature but kept the distinguishing marks of China, Bourbon and Noisette in their new varieties. They were set apart as a class, called Hybrid Chinas, and within the class, Hybrid Bourbons and Hybrid Noisettes were recognized. If you have an especially handsome floriferous China rose bush which just will not bloom but once a season, it is a fair bet that you have one of these lost roses. (The Hybrid Perpetual which will not come again is a nuisance here.)

Rivers' George the Fourth is evidently the most frequent survivor. The dark red tinting of the bark, of the foliage and prickles of new shoots is very noticeable. Bushes here grow to six feet, newer shoots are upright, older ones bend. The smooth, lovely leaves, the bark and scattered prickles are from the China ancestor, probably the red one. Roses are richly red shaded with purple and almost black (Gallica?) ; double, stamens and pistils intact but hidden by curling petals. Thomas Rivers tells in his "Rose Amateur's Guide" how he discovered the plant in a bed of seedlings.
     Foliage somewhat thicker, rounder, a little tougher than that of the China roses, green bark with bristles among the prickles, show the Bourbon content of another survivor, Coupe d'Hébè. This lovely. rose blooms in about the most perfectly cupped form one could imagine, of a color as purely pink as Hermosa. Here Coupe d'Hébè .makes a bush about six feet tall, with bark, prickles, bristles and foliage all of a medium shade of green. Dean Hole broke into ecstatic prose about it.
     The only variety so far recognized as a Noisette hybrid is Mme. Plantier, a bushy, floriferous familiar rose. Shoots are slender and branching; foliage is rather small, light green in color. Blooms, coming in clusters, are not very large, full, creamy on opening, soon going purely white. R. alba might be an ancestor. So, possibly might be Aimée Vibert, Noisette.
     Of the few that have been recognized as survivors of what was once:. quite a large, group, more red Hybrid Chinas have been discovered than any other one color. They ranged from `white .to deep colors. It is to be hoped that more will be found.
     The roses we call everblooming--Teas, Chinas, Bourbons and Noisettes--are not always "open books" when found in old gardens. Teas were crossed with Chinas. Bourbons and Noisettes were hybrids at the start. They were mixed with Teas and Chinas. The old Tea Sombreuil is somewhat Bourbon. Tea rose is apparent in such Noisettes as Lamarque, Maréchal Niel and Chromatella. However, just as in the June-roses, these everblooming ones fall into the classes of Teas, Chinas, Bourbons, and Noisettes, according the dominating characteristics. What is called the true Noisette, to distinguish it from the Tea-Noisette, is the small-flowered, heavily clustering form.