182 ON BLOOMING THE YELLOW NOISETTE ROSE. 



Inf. Horsefield's fineTrusser; it bloomed nine pips, and each 

 one measured two inches in diameter. This is Smith's Princess 

 Charlotte, that Page's Duchess of Oldenburg; here are Smith's 

 Waterloo, Partington's Trafalgar, Popplewell's Conqueror, and many 

 others, nearly all as large as fine Trusser. These are certainly not so 

 large, but infinitely better flowers : Lee's Colonel Taylor, Howard's 

 Nelson, and Page's Champion. And these are some of the best 

 white edges : Taylor's Glory, Kenyon's Lord Chancellor, Hughes's 

 Pillar of Beauty. These are good grey edges : Fletcher's Ne Plus 

 Ultra, Howard's Sweepstakes, Howard's Eclipse, Oliver's Lovely 

 Ann, Grimes's Privateer, and Kenyon's Ringleader. You see how 

 these have been grown, and if you will follow the directions I have 

 given you, you may do the same. We will now join the ladies at 

 tea. I will gather a young peach leaf to put into the teapot, it will 

 much improve the tea, to my taste ; some think it gives the flavour 

 of noyeau, and do not like it. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON BLOOMING THE YELLOW NOISETTE ROSE. 



BY W. G. B., CORK. 



Having heard gardeners frequently complain of the difficulty of 

 blooming yellow roses, and having flowered them myself very suc- 

 cessfully for the last two years, I send you the method I have used, 

 hoping it may be useful to some of your readers. 



The plants are planted in rich mould, in the open border. When 

 the buds begin to show, I place a hand-glass over each rose-tree ; 

 and, to insure plenty of air, I put four small pots under the four 

 corners of the hand-glass. It will be necessary to shade in hot sun- 

 shine. I find, if they are not covered with a hand-glass, that the 

 outside petals rot before the inner ones open. I had six fine Noisettes 

 this year, on one small plant; and there will be a second crop about 

 the end of July. 



P.S. Crassula versicolor I find to be quite hardy. I left out a 

 plant of it last winter ; the mould in the pot was frequently frozen 

 very hard. It looks very healthy now, and is coming strongly into 

 flower in the open air. 



June 30, 1841. 



