This beautiful red rose, which has been under culture near Philadelphia for nearly a hundred years, and which proves to be not materially distinct in a botanical sense from Rosa rugosa, recently introduced as the "Rameses" rose, has at least the peculiar advantage of flowering earlier - at least earlier than the white variety. It was the earliest of all in a large collection of single roses near Philadelphia this year, being open in the first week of May. The rugosa was nearly two weeks later.