58 THE DOUBLE YELLOW ROSE. 



As yet we have but two roses in this division ; 

 the Double Yellow, or ' Yellow Provence,' with 

 large globular and very double bright-yellow 

 flowers, and the Pompone Jaune, or Dwarf Double 

 Yellow, both excessively shy of producing full- 

 blown flowers, though they grow in any moderately 

 good soil with great luxuriance, and show an 

 abundance of flower-buds ; but some < worm i' the 

 bud' generally causes them to fall off prematurely. 

 To remedy this, various situations have been 

 recommended : some have said, plant it against a 

 south wall ; olhers give it a northern aspect, under 

 the drip of some water-trough, as it requires a 

 wet situation. All this is quackery and nonsense. 

 The Yellow Provence Eose is a native of a warm 

 climate, and therefore requires a warm situation, 

 a free and airy exposure, and rich soil; a wall 

 with a south-east or north-west aspect will be 

 found eligible. Give the plants surface manure 

 every autumn, and water with manure water in 

 May ; prune with the finger and thumb in summer, 

 as recommended for the Persian Yellow.* 



in Afghanistan. Though so well known in our gardens for 

 nearly a century, the native place of this fine plant has only 

 been recently discovered : both single and double states of it are 

 cultivated abundantly in Persian gardens, and the single has 

 been also found wild on Mount Sypilus. DE. HOOKEE, in 

 Gardener's Chronicle, January 17, 1857. 



* M. Godefroy, a French nurseryman, has cultivated it as a 

 pillar rose in a free and open situation with much success; 

 manuring as above and summer pruning are indispensable. 



