144 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



lief. The trees should be pruned when they have flowered 

 in summer, so that a fresh growth of laterals may be well 

 ripened before winter, and bloom in the ensuing spring. 



Rather more than twenty years ago, Mr Fortune sent 

 over a batch of Climbing Roses from China, and from one 

 of them, named Fortune's Yellow, great expectations rose. 

 It was described by a Rosarian at Seven Oaks as being 

 " nearly as rampant as the old Ayrshire, quite hardy, 

 covered from the middle of 'Ma.y with large loose flowers of 

 every shade — between a rich reddish buff and a full coppery 

 pink — and rambling over a low wall, covering it on both 

 sides, about 20 feet wide and 5 feet high." ^Ir Fortune 

 himself described it as most striking in its own country, 

 with flowers " yellowish salmon, and bronze-like ; " but it 

 did not succeed in my garden, and as I find it in only one 

 of the catalogues, I fear it has all but succumbed to our 

 ung-enial climate. 



Although the Boursault Rose is called, from its habitat, 

 Rosa Alpina, it certainly has not the agility in climbing 

 which entitles the Roses previously discussed to member- 

 ship in the Alpine Club. The old crimson Amadis is very 

 beautiful when the evening sun is low, and the soft light 

 rests upon its glowing flowers, and the blush variety is large 



