146 RAISING VARIETIES FROM SEED. 



Raising Varieties from Seed. 



With attention, some very beautiful roses of 

 this family may be originated from seed ; but the 

 plants must be trained against a south wall, in a 

 warm, dry soil, or grown in pots, under glass : a 

 warm greenhouse, or the orchard house, will be 

 most proper for them, so that they bloom in May, 

 as their hips are a long time ripening. 



For yellow roses, Vicomtesse de Gazes may be 

 planted with and fertilised by Canary, which 

 abounds in pollen : some fine roses, almost to a 

 certainty, must be raised from seed produced by 

 such a union : for the sake of curiosity, a few 

 flowers of the latter might be fertilised with the 

 Double Yellow Briar, or Eosa Harrisonii. The 

 Old Yellow Tea Kose bears seed abundantly ; but 

 it has been found, from repeated experiments, 

 that a good or even a mediocre rose is seldom or 

 never produced from it ; but fertilised with the 

 Yellow Briar, something original may be realised. 

 Souvenir d'un Ami and Adam would produce seed 

 of fine quality, from which large and bright rose- 

 coloured varieties might be expected. Niphetos 

 would give pure white Tea Roses ; and Grloire de 

 Dijon fertilised with Safrano would probably 

 originate first-rate fawn-coloured roses ; l:)ut the 

 central petals of the former should be carefully 

 removed with tweezers or pliers, as its flowers are 

 too double for it to be a certain seed-bearer. 



