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Southern and Middle States is far more suitable to them 

 than that of the North ; though it is more than probable, 

 that, with careful and judicious treatment, they would do 

 well even here. They need a rich diet, and a sunny and 

 airy situation, to induce them to expand their flower-buds, 

 which are provokingly apt to fall before opening. They 

 are also very liable to the attacks of insects. The difficulty 

 of the cultivation of this rose is greatly to be lamented, 

 since it surpasses even the Persian Yellow in beauty. 



" Various situations," says Mr. Rivers, "have been recom- 

 mended. Some have said, 'Plant it against a south wall;' 

 others, ' Give it a northern aspect, under the drip of some 

 water-trough, as it requires a wet situation.' 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 and airy exposure, and rich soil : a wall 

 with a south-east or north-west aspect will be found eligi- 

 ble. Give the plants surface-manure every autumn, and 

 water with manure- water in May ; prune with the finger 

 and thumb in summer, as recommended for the Persian 

 Yellow* 



"At Burleigh, the seat of the Marquis of Exeter, the 

 effect of situation on this rose is forcibly shown. A very 



* M. Godefroy, a French nursery-man, has cultivated it as a pillar- 

 rose, in a free and open situation, with much success. Manuring as 

 above, and summer pruning, are indispensable. 



