176 THE OLD DOUBLE YELLOW BOSE. 



ation. All this is quackery and nonsense. The Yellow Provence 

 Rose .is a native of a warm climate, and therefore requires a warm 

 situation, a free airj' exposure, and rich soil. 



A very old plant is growing in front of a low parapet wall in my 

 garden, in a good loamy soil and free airy exposure, which is in a state 

 of the greatest luxuriance, and blooms in fine perfection nearly every 

 season. 



The Eose has very much engaged my attention for several years, in 

 order to ascertain by what means the evil of the buds being injured, 

 and dropping off, might be avoided, and I am now enabled to state 

 that, if the following treatment be pursued, a splendid bloom may 

 certainly and invariably be obtained. 



The plant requires to have a good loamy soil, upon a dry sub- 

 stratum, moderately enriched. It must be planted against a good 

 aspected wall, either full south, or as near as circumstances admit of 

 the latter. 



The plant must be trained as is done to a peach-tree, and early in 

 summer, when the shoots are young, a suitable portion must be 

 secured by the wall, as is done to the peach, and all others be taken 

 clean away. 



As soon as it is perceived the shoots have embryo buds upon them, 

 a cover of canvas, or something that will cause shade, must be fixed, so 

 as to cover the entire plant. 



This shading is essential to s\iccess. If the covering is placed so as 

 to keep the rains from tiie border, recourse must be iiad to watering, 

 also an occasioned sprinkling by means of syringe must be given over 

 the foliage. 



When tlie blooming is over the shading is no longer requisite, and 

 its removal is necessary to palliate the ripening of the shoots for next 

 year's supply, wliich is an essential point to be obtained. 



JNIy first success with blooming the rose successively was by the 

 following circumstance. A plant was growing at the south side of a 

 vase placed on a pedestal, around whicli the branches were trained. 

 At tlie blooming season I found all the buds on the south (sunny side) 

 went off in the usual way, but all that portion of the plant which was 

 on the shady side produced perfect bloom in perfection. 



It appears to me to be essential to obtain well-ripened wood, and 

 then to give shade during the period from buds being formed to 

 blooming. These being obtained, success is certain. I have a plant 

 which now annually produces a profusion of fine flowers treated in the 

 manner above specified. 



During the first summer that I trained the plant against the wall, a 

 considerable quantity of young shoots was produced ; in order to assist 

 the shoots that had buds upon them, I cut off all others, wliich 

 amounted to three parts of them ; so sudden a destitution caused all 

 the buds to drop off, but when the shoots are stripped off at an early 

 stage this evil is entirely obviated. 



