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quaint old book, c Flora, Ceres, and Pomona, by John Rea, 

 Gent., 1655,' showing that budding and double-budding 

 of roses and trees is no new idea : * The Double Yellow 

 Hose is thennost unapt of all others to bear kindly and fair 

 flowers, unless it be ordered and looked unto in an espe- 

 cial manner. For whereas all other roses are best natural, 

 this is best inoculated upon another stock. Others thrive 

 and bear best in the sun, this in the shade. Therefore the 

 best way that I know to cause this rose to bring forth fair 

 and kindly flowers is performed after this manner : First, 

 in the stock of a Francford * Rose, near the ground, put 

 in a bud of the Single Yellow Rose, which will quickly 

 shoot to a good length ; then, half a yard higher than the 

 place where the same was budded, put into it a bud of the 

 Double Yellow Rose ; which growing, the suckers must 

 be kept from the root, and all the buds rubbed off", except 

 those of the kind desired ; which being grown big enough to 

 bear (which will be in the two years), it must in winter be 

 pruned very near, cutting off all the small shoots, and only 

 leaving the biggest, cutting off the tops of them also, as 

 far as they are small ; then in the spring, when the buds 

 for leaves come forth, rub off the smallest of them, leaving 

 only some few of the biggest, which by reason of the 

 strength of the stock affording more nourishment than any 

 other, and the agreeable nature of the Single Yellow Rose 



* This is the Frankfort Rose, a variety of Rosa Gallica, with very 

 double flowers, one of our oldest garden-roses. 



