I90 A BOOK ABOUT ROSES. 



The Austrian Brier is a Sweet-Brier also ; and 

 though not so fragrant in its foHage as our own 

 old favorite, it brings us, in the variety called Per- 

 sian Yellow, a satisfactory recompense — namely, 

 flowers of deepest, brightest yellow, prettily 

 shaped, but small. This Rose is almost the ear- 

 liest to tell us that summer is at hand, first by 

 unfolding its sweet leaves, of a most vivid refresh- 

 ing green, and then by its golden blooms. It 

 grows well on the Brier, but is preferable, when 

 size is an object, on its own roots, from which it 

 soon sends vigorous suckers, and so forms a large 

 bush. In pruning, the amateur will do well to 

 remember the warning : 



•* Ah me ! what perils do environ 

 The man who meddles with cold iron !" 



seeing that if he is too vivacious with his knife, he 

 will inevitably destroy all hopes of bloom. Let 

 him remove weakly wood altogether, and then 

 only shorten by a few inches the more vigorous 

 shoots. The red or copper-colored Austrian is a 

 most striking and beautiful Rose, and should be 

 in every garden. 



We will pass now from Garden Roses, which 

 bloom but once, to those which are called Per- 

 petual, which • 



