5Q THE AUSTRIAN BRIAR. 



Rose. In habit it is so exactly like the Single 

 Yellow Austrian Briar as not to be distinguished 

 from it ; it grows readily budded on the Dog 

 Rose, as my plants have often made shoots three 

 feet or more in length ; in colour it is of a deep 

 golden yellow ; its flowers are quite double, 

 cupped, and not liable to become reflexed ; it is 

 indeed a most superb yellow rose. Like the 

 Yellow Austrian Briar, it loves a pure air, and 

 rich soil, and will bloom as freely ; but in pruning, 

 merely the tips of its shoots must be cut off, thin- 

 ning out the shoots that have been formed in 

 summer, as recommended for Hybrid China roses ; 

 this will be found good practice.* 



To bloom them in perfection all the Austrian 

 Briars require a moist soil and dry pure air ; but 

 little manure is necessary, as they grow freely in 

 any tolerably good and moist soil ; neither do 

 they require severe pruning, but merely the strong 

 shoots shortened, and most of the twigs left on 

 the plant, as they generally produce flowers in 

 great abundance ; planted as low standards in an 

 orchard-house they bloom here in April in great 

 profusion. 



* By shortening the strong shoots in summer, so as to make 

 them put forth laterals, there will not be any occasion for winter 

 pruning : thus Ly judiciously pinching off with the finger and 

 thumb in June all shoots that are larger than a straw, to about 

 half their length, small lateral twigs will break out, and the 

 plant will be filled with blooming shoots, some of which must 

 be removed in winter, if full-sized flowers are required. 



