152 THE NOISETTE ROSE. 



would have a fine effect. This rose requires some 

 peculiarities in its treatment, for it is in our 

 cool climate a shy bloomer.* It should be 

 planted against a wall with a warm aspect, the 

 soil well manm-ed and stirred twenty inches deep, 

 and its long robust shoots, which it always makes, 

 not shortened, but trained to their full length, if 

 in a sei-pentine manner so much the better ; the 

 second year these shoots will give grand trusses 

 of bloom from all the buds in the upper part of 

 the shoot. As soon as the blooms are past, cut 

 out the shoots close to the ground, and encourage 

 the growth of others during the summer to bloom 

 the following season. When the tree is very 

 vigorous, one or two of the shoots that have 

 bloomed the preceding summer may be left, the 

 blooming spikes shortened, and they will some- 

 times give autumnal flowers. This treatment may 

 be applied to ^Madame Schulz and Isabella Grray, 

 if they prove to be shy bloomers. The Cloth of 

 G-old Eose flourishes remarkably well in Jersey, 

 where I have heard of some very fine trees. As 

 standards. Noisette Eoses require but little cul- 

 ture ; the principal care is to be prompt in cutting 

 off" the decayed and decaying clusters of flowers 

 during the blooming season ; and, in March, to 



* A very nice method of cultivating this rose is to plant a 

 Banksian Rose against a wall (Fortmiiana is the best variety), 

 and after it has made sufficient growth bud it with it. This 

 stock also suits well the other yellow Noisettes, and all the Tea- 

 scented Eoses. 



