I see in your Editorial Notes, in the December number of the Monthly, page 357, you state that the American Banner Rose, "like all other sports of this character, is liable to take self color at times." This I think is a mistake. I have grown it largely for the past three years, and have never yet failed to see a flower come striped. In fact it is not only the flower that differs from the plant from which it is sported - Bon Silene - but the foliage is entirely distinct, and has no resemblance whatever to any other rose, being peculiarly veined and of a leather-like texture, showing its whole character to be unique and distinct - distinct enough almost to be classed as a species. The rose has been grown largely by the Dingee & Conard Co., of West Grove, Pa., and by C. A. Reeser, of Springfield, Ohio, and as far as I can ascertain their experience has been the same as my own; that no plant has ever run back to the original. Nor do I think it ever will, as its character is seemingly as firmly fixed as if it had been a seedling instead of a sport.