ROSA sulphurea, Double Yellow Rose This fine yellow Rose is a native of the Levant, and not to be met with in flower in any of the nursery-grounds very near London. We have not seen it even in a budding state nearer than Brentford, in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, whence our drawing was begun last year from a fine plant with numerous buds, not one of which expanded suffi¬ ciently perfect for us to represent. From the book Roses, or, A monograph of the genus Rosa : containing coloured figures of all the known species and beautiful varieties, drawn, engraved, descri


ROSA sulphurea, Double Yellow Rose This fine yellow Rose is a native of the Levant, and not to be met with in flower in any of the nursery-grounds very near London. We have not seen it even in a budding state nearer than Brentford, in the collection of the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, whence our drawing was begun last year from a fine plant with numerous buds, not one of which expanded suffi¬ ciently perfect for us to represent. From the book Roses, or, A monograph of the genus Rosa : containing coloured figures of all the known species and beautiful varieties, drawn, engraved, described, and coloured, from living plants. by Andrews, Henry Charles, Published in London : printed by R. Taylor and Co. ; 1805.


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