GARDEN ROSES. I/I 



question often sent to the horticultural editor. All 

 sorts of manoeuvres, and all sorts of manures, 

 were tried. Mrs. Lawrence writes that a tree of 

 this Rose was planted against an east wall at 

 Broughton Hall in Buckinghamshire, with a dead 

 fox placed at its roots, by her father. She adds, 

 fortunately, that he " was a great sportsman," or 

 posterity would certainly have suspected papa of 

 being what posterity calls a vulpicide. " In many 

 seasons," writes the Rev. Mr. Hanbury, in his 

 elaborate work upon Gardening, published just a 

 century ago, " these Roses do not blow fair. Some- 

 times they appear as if the sides had been eaten 

 by a worm when in bud ; at other times the petals 

 are all withered before they expand themselves, 

 and form the flower. For this purpose, many have 

 recommended to plant them against north walls, 

 and in the coldest and moistest part of the gar- 

 den, because, as the contexture of their petals is 

 so delicate, they will be then in less danger of suf- 

 fering by the heats of the sun, which seem to 

 wither and burn them as often as they expand 

 themselves. But I could not observe without 

 wonder what I never saw before — /. e., in the 

 parching and dry summer of 1762, all my Double 

 Yellow Roses, both in the nursery-lines and else- 

 where, in the hottest of the most southern expos- 



