THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JANUARY 1st, 1840. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE OLD DOUBLE YELLOW ROSE. 



BY SURItEYENSIS. 



Your correspondent, K. C. P., might have seen the Double Yellow 

 Rose in as great perfection as the common cabbage rose, two years 

 ago, at the rooms of the Horticultural Society, for which the gentleman 

 who grew them obtained a medal. You refer to Rosa's observations 

 in November, but, with all due deference to the lady, there are many 

 contradictions in them. She supposes that, as they are abundant at 

 Genoa and Florence, they must require a warm aspect, whereas she 

 says the one against a south wall at Burleigh is sickly, and produces 

 no perfect flowers (she does not say what is the aspect of the parapet 

 wall, where the flourishing one grows). Her own flowered very 

 well on the north side of the vase, whereas on the south the flowers 

 came to nothing. 



This is the sum of my experience, which, from an accident, will 

 not prove much. I budded an old Brown's superb rose, in 1838, 

 with the buds of yellow Provence, only one bud sprouted (the others 

 arc yet alive but dormant); it was so vigorous it resembled a birch 

 broom j it was against a north wall : unhappily I had not nailed it 

 sufficiently or firmly against the wall, so that in those wet hurricanes 

 in July, what with its size and the additional weight of the water, it 

 broke oft*, to my great disappointment. Its appearance was as 

 healthy and more vigorous than the dog rose. I have still many 



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