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imitated ; for there it blooms in such profusion, 

 that largo quantities of its magnificent flowers 

 are daily sold in the markets during the rose 

 season. 



The following extract relative to this rose is 

 from the quaint old book, ' Flora, Ceres, and 

 Pomona, by John Rea, Grent., ] 655,' showing that 

 budding and double-budding of roses and trees is 

 no new idea : — ' The Double Yellow (rose) is the 

 most unapt of all others to bear kindly and fair 

 flowers, unless it be ordered and looked unto in 

 an especial manner : for whereas all other roses 

 are best natural, this is best inoculated upon 

 another stock ; others thrive and bear best in the 

 sun, this in the shade ; therefore, the best way 

 that I kno^v to cause this rose to bring forth 

 fair and kindly flowers, is performed after this 

 manner : — first, in the stock of a Francford* 

 Rose, near the ground, put in a bud of the Single 

 Yellow Rose, which will quickly shoot to a good 

 length ; then, half a yard higher than the place 

 where tlie same was budded, put into it a bud 

 of the Double Yellow Rose, which growing, the 

 suckers must be kept from the root, and all the 

 buds rubbed off except those of the kind desired, 

 which being grown big enough to bear (which 

 will be in the two years), it must in winter be 

 pruned very near, cutting off all the small shoots 



* This is the Frankfort rose, a variety of Rosa gallica, with 

 very double flowers, one of our oldest garden roses. 



