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don in 1838, and is now called the Persian Yellow 

 Rose. In habit it is so exactly like the Single 

 Yellow Austrian Briar as not to be distinguished 

 from it : it grows readily budded on the Dog Eose, 

 as my plants have often made shoots three feet or 

 more in length : in colour it is of a deep golden 

 yellow ; its flowers are quite double, cupped, and 

 not liable to become reflexed ; it is indeed a most 

 superb yellow rose. Like the Yellow Austrian 

 Briar, it loves a pure air, and rich soil, and will 

 bloom as freely ; but in pruning, merely the tips 

 of its shoots must be cut off, thinning out the 

 shoots that have been formed in summer, as re- 

 commended for Hybrid China roses ; this will be 

 found good practice.* 



To bloom them in perfection all the Austrian 

 Briars require a moist soil and dry pure air ; but 

 little manure is necessary, as they grow freely in 

 any tolerably good and moist soil; neither do they 

 require severe pruning, but merely the strong 

 shoots shortened, and most of the twigs left on 

 the plant, as they generally produce flowers in 

 great abundance. 



* By shortening the strong shoots in summer, so as to make 

 them put forth laterals, there will not be any occasion for winter 

 pruning : thus by judiciously pinching off with the finger and 

 thumb in June all shoots that are larger than a straw, to about 

 half their length, small lateral twigs will break out, and the 

 plant will be filled with blooming shoots, some of which must 

 be removed in winter, if full-sized flowers are required. 



