322 THE BOOK OF THE ROSE CHAP. 
strongly Tea-scented. To a large extent it stands 
by itself, being thoroughly distinct in growth, habit, 
and flower, its reputed seed-parent being the most 
like it of existing Roses. It is of very strong 
climbing growth, with magnificent foliage evergreen 
under glass, but very liable to mildew. The blooms, 
which lose colour when exposed to the sun, come 
generally good if not exposed to cold nights in the 
early bud stage, and are fine in petal, centre, shape, 
colour, fragrance, and size: of fair lasting qualities 
if kept dry and fairly cool, but apt to go before the 
day is out in a hot exhibition tent. It is a very 
free bloomer if treated properly, and flowers fairly 
well throughout the autumn on standards where 
these can be grown and flowered in the open air. 
Like most, if not all, other yellow Roses, instead of 
losing colour after being cut and kept in the shade, 
the colour deepens, but loses in brightness. Like 
all Noisettes, the best blooms come on the long 
secondary shoots of the previous year, which should 
be as well ripened as possible, and left nearly of full 
length. Though often grown on its own roots in 
pots—for it strikes readily as a cutting—it does 
much better if budded on the briar, preferably as a 
standard. It is decidedly tender, being much hable 
in the open to be injured or killed outright by severe 
frosts; but on a wall, particularly if there be 
anything in the nature of a coping above, it will: 
stand ordinary winters in most localities. In such 
a case, do not forget to give it plenty of water or . 
weak liquid manure in all dry times in the summer: 
things growing on walls require much more water 
than plants in the open, and often get none at all: 
a large shallow basin-shaped depression should be 
