FoirrraE s double yellow clihbixg rose. 9 



limited extent, selection has become a difficult task. If, however, there be one 

 shrub, the merits of which entitle it to a place in even the smallest collection, that 

 plant is undoubtedly the Skimmia joponica. Our figure represents the plant about 

 one half the natural size. 



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FOEIWE'S 



DOUBLE YELLOW CLIMBING ROSE. 



Linnean Class — Icosandeia. Order — Polygynia. Natural Order — Rosacea. 



Although the restricted limits of our plate render it impossible to do adequate 

 justice to this remarkable rose, the comparative rarity of the yellow varieties of this 

 peerless family, induces us to select it for our first example of the 'Queen of flowers.' 

 Its peculiar tints are scarcely imitable by art, but some idea of it may be formed 

 by those acquainted with the variety of the China rose, called Ophiree, to which, 

 however, it is very greatly superior. 



Its history affords us an instructive example of the errors of cultivation, resulting 

 from inattention to the habit of plants ; and many other instances could be cited of 

 valuable subjects condemned as worthless, owing to ignorance of the true mode 

 of treatment. 



Of the origin of the Wang-jang-ve rose — for such is its Chinese designation — 

 nothing is known ; it is, however, in all probability only a variety, and not a true 

 species. It appears likely to ripen seed in favourable seasons, and may therefore be 

 the means of introducing yet further diversity of tint among the already varied hues 

 of this unsurpassed genus of plants Its flowers are very large, our figure representing 

 them less than one half the natural size ; and are also very double. The purplish 

 tint of the leaf stalk contributes not a little to the effect of the whole. 



Our readers will be glad to learn that its price does not exceed that of the roses 

 more generally grown, and we anticipate therefore, that its great merits will soon 

 give it a place wherever fine flowers are esteemed. 



We have been obligingly favoured by Messrs. Standish and Noble, of Bagshot, 

 with the following remarks on its culture ; and as these gentlemen were the first to 

 discover its value, and to point out the treatment best suited to it, their hints will 

 doubtless be properly appreciated by our readers. 



' Although this beautiful plant has been cultivated in our gardens for several 

 years i ls merits remained comparatively unknown till the past season. It was first 

 received by the Horticultural Society of London, from Mr. Fortune, who discovered 

 it, on his first visit to China in 1845, in the neighbourhood of Ning-po. From 

 some cause, attributable either to the mode of treatment it received, or to the 



