I/O A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



if the sides had been eaten by a worm when in bud ; at 

 other times the petals are all withered before they expand 

 themselves, and form the flower. For this purpose, many 

 have recommended to plant them against north walls, and 

 in the coldest and moistest part of the garden, because, as 

 the contexture of their petals is so delicate, they will be 

 then in less danger of suffering by the heats of the sun, 

 w^hich seem to wither and burn them as often as they ex- 

 pand themselves. But I could not observe without wonder 

 what I never saw before — i.e., in the parching and dry 

 summer of 1762, all my Double Yellow Roses, both in the 

 nursery-lines and elsewhere, in the hottest of the most 

 southern exposures and dry banks, everywhere all over my 

 whole plantation, flowered clear and fair." Here, in my 

 opinion, the latter paragraph contradicts and disproves the 

 former, showing us that so far from the Yellow Provence 

 Rose being burned and withered by the sun, we have only 

 now and then in an exceptional season sunshine sufficient 

 to bring it to perfection. And for this reason we will leave 

 it— 



*' If she be not fair for me, 



What care I how fair she be ?" 



More kindly and gracious is the Miniature or Pompon 



