146 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



pruned when they have flowered in summer, so 

 that a fresh growth of laterals may be well ripened 

 before winter, and bloom in the ensuing spring.* 



Rather more than twenty years ago, Mr. For- 

 tune sent over a batch of Climbing Roses from 

 China, and from' one of them, named Fortune's 

 Yellow, great expectations rose. It was described 

 by a Rosarian at Seven Oaks as being ** nearly as 

 rampant as the old Ayrshire, quite hardy, covered 

 from the middle of May with large loose flowers 

 of every shade — between a rich reddish buff and 

 a full coppery pink — and rambling over a low 

 wall, covering it on both sides, about 20 feet wide, 

 and 5 feet high." Mr. Fortune himself described 

 it as most striking in its own country, with flowers 

 "yellowish salmon, and bronze-like;" but it has 

 not as yet received in England the attention which 

 it deserves, as one of the most attractive and 

 abundant of Roses. They who have seen it as it 

 is grown at Blenheim and elsewhere, will not be 

 happy until they have planted it on a southern 

 wall. 



Although the Boursault Rose is called, from its 

 habitat, Rosa Alpina, it certainly has not the 

 agility in climbing which entitles the Roses pre- 



* Upon the Banksian Rose, once established, other Roses, of the 

 Tea and Noisette famihes, may be successfully budded. 



