Several years since the rose growers had given, them (by Peter Henderson I believe) a new rose, striped; and therefore called American Banner. It created quite a sensation and demand. I amongst the rest bought it and must confess to a great disappointment after seeing it flower. It does not here interest us to discuss its merits, but I want to call your attention to a rose now very scarce in our southern gardens; but a few I saw last season in such luxuriant bloom that several flower loving people "talked it over" and came to the conclusion that in it the "American Banner" had more than its compeer. Doubtless you know the rose under its old-fashioned name of "York and Lancaster." Named from England's war of the roses, whose emblems were one a white, the other a red rose, and afterwards commingled in one. This rose is a deep glowing rose color, distinctly striped with pale flesh, only semi-double, a profusion of golden stamens in fine contrast to the. rose. Why cannot this rose be made known again to the flower public ? If they raved over " American Banner," which is an extremely delicate Tea, why not accept this York and Lancaster which is is as hardy as a wild Cherokee rose, and make it a prime favorite? I have secured a goodly number of them and intend propagating from it and try to re-introduce it, on its merits alone.

Will you not write an article upon this rose? I would like to know more of it, its origin and merits, than I do. I love flowers and their culture with my whole ardent southern soul, and never tire of reading, writing, working or talking about them.

[We are very glad to know this lovely rose is still in existence. It is many years since we saw a plant. We share our correspondent's warm admiration for it. In regard to its striped character we may remark that all of this class come self-colored at times, just as she found it with the American Banner. - Ed. G. M].

A correspondent desires to thank Mrs. A. G., West Virginia, for a plant of the old striped rose, the York and Lancaster as it is called, which was kindly sent to her. It may be as well to say that the rose has evidently derived its name from the fact of the two great houses of York and Lancaster, adopting respectively the white rose and the red rose as their respective cognescence. Eventually the wars between them ceased by an union of their families. The union of the white and the red in this striped flower would naturally suggest the history of the great families - the union of York and Lancaster. In Washington Territory, as we are informed by a lady, it is called the Calico Rose.