CULTURE. oy 



As yet we have but two roses in this division : 

 the Double Yellow, or ' Yellow Provence,' with 

 large globular and very double bright-yellow 

 flowers, and the Pompone Jaune, or Dwarf Double 

 Yellow, both excessively shy of producing full- 

 blown flowers, though they grow in any moderately 

 good soil with great luxuriance, and show an 

 abundance of flower-buds ; but some ' worm i' the 

 bud ' generally causes them to fall off prematurely. 

 To remedy this, various situations have been 

 recommended ; some have said, plant it against a 

 south wall ; others give it a northern aspect, under 

 the drip of some water-trough, as it requires a 

 wet situation. All this is quackery and nonsense. 

 The Yellow Provence Kose is a native of a warm 

 climate, and therefore requires a warm situation, 

 a free and airy exposure, and rich soil ; a wall 

 with a south-east or north-west aspect will be 

 found eligible. Give the plants surface manure 

 every autumn, and water with manure water in 

 May ; prime with the finger and thumb in summer, 

 as recommended for the Persian Yellow.^ 



in Affghanistan. Thoxigh so well known in our gardens for 

 nearly a century, the native place of this fine plant has only 

 been recently discovered: both single and double states of it are 

 cultivated abundantly in Persian gardens, and the single has 

 been also found wild on Mount Sypilus. — Dr. Hooker, ;n 

 Gardener's Chronicle, January 17, 1857. 



* M. Godefroy, a French nurseryman, has cultivated it as a 

 pillar rose in a free and open situation with much success ; 

 manuring as above and summer pruning are indispensable. 



