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phurea perfecta; Queen, a beautiful light, with dark centre; Na- 
poleon, orange and red; Pallida, peach and lilac; Black Prince, a 
deep black, fine form too; Magnum Bonum, arich maroon of immense 
size; Formosa, a light crimson-red.— By Mr. Cater. 
( To be continued.) 
YELLOW ROSES. 
Some disputes have lately occurred at the London floral shows relative 
to the kinds of Roses which properly may be ranked of that class. 
Mr. William Paul, in an article inserted in the Magazine of Gardening, 
has arranged them into two sections—the pure yellows, and the shaded 
yellows. To the first belong the Persian Yellow, Harrisonia, Yellow 
Briar, and Single Yellow Austrian, also the old Double Yellow. ‘To 
the second section belong the following, which are the yellowest in it, 
viz. :—Of the Tea-scented, Abricote, Aurora, Cleopatra, Devoniensis, 
Eliza Sauvage, Jaune, Moiret, La Renomme, Mirabile, Pellonia, Prin- 
cess Adelaide, Safran, Smith’s Yellow, and Viscomtesse de Cazes; of 
the Noisettes there are, Clara Wendel, *Cloth of Gold, *Desprez. 
Euphrosyne, *Lamarque, La Pactole, *Solfaterre, all partaking some- 
what of the nature of the Tea-scented. All the kinds enumerated do 
best grown in pots, except those marked with an asterisk, being liable 
to injury by exposure to frost. Loam and leaf mould, or old pulverized 
rotten manure, forms a suitable compost, and close pruning is essential 
to vigour. The plants to be kept ina pit, frame, or greenhouse, during 
winter and spring, and during suinmer and autumn the pots are sunk in 
the open ground. Those marked are vigorous growers, are very suit- 
able to be trained to a wall or the pillars of a greenhouse, conservatory, 
&e. The yellow Banksian Rose, and Jaune Serin of the same class of 
Roses, both do well against a wall. The latter of the two is more 
double and a deeper colour. As we have several times remarked in 
vur Magazine, these roses must be pruned in summer, cutting out all 
surplus shoots, and only securing to the wall as many as will properly 
cover it, in a similar manner as is done in summer pruning and arrang- 
ing a Peach tree. This operation should be performed about mid- 
summer, or as early after as possible. The Persian Yellow requires 
particular attention in pruning. The main shoots should only have 
the mere tips cut off, as the flowers are produced from the buds near 
their tops, and all the buds lower down only wood shoots. The 
blooming buds towards the summit are somewhat closely set, and it is 
advisable to rub some of them off, and this contributes to the vigour of 
the bloom. 
Whatever manure is added to the soil it must be ina perfect decom- 
posed state. It flourishes in a compost of turfy loam mixed with one- 
eighth each of lime, river sand, and leaf mould. 
Tt is a fine sort for pot culture, too, six plants having horne five 
hundred healthy flower buds. The head of each plant was trained to 
an umbrella shape, a wire being put round the rim of the pot, and the 
shoots drawn downwards and so secured. 
The Harrisonia Rose should be treated as the above, except when 
pruned it must be thinned more. It blooms most profusely, and de- 
serves, with the Persian Yellow, to be in every collection. 
