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most proper for them, so that they bloom in May, 

 as their hips are a long time ripening. 



For yellow roses, Vicomtesse de lazes may be 

 planted with and fertilised by Canary, which 

 abounds in pollen ; some fine, roses, almost to a 

 certainty must be raised from seed produced by 

 such a union: for the sake of curiosity, a few 

 flowers of the latter might be fertilised with the 

 Double Yellow Briar, or Eosa Harrisonii. The 

 Old Yellow Tea Kose bears seed abundantly ; but 

 it has been found, from repeated experiments, that 

 a good or even a mediocre rose is seldom or never 

 produced from it ; but fertilised with the Yellow 

 Briar, something original may be realised. Sou- 

 venir d'un Ami and Adam would produce seed of 

 fine quality, from which large and bright rose- 

 coloured varieties might be expected. Mphetos 

 would give pure white Tea Koses ; and Grloire de 

 Dijon fertilised with Safrano would probably 

 originate first-rate fawn-coloured roses; but the 

 central petals of the latter should be carefully 

 removed with tweezers or pliers, as its flowers are 

 too double for it to be a certain seed-bearer. 



THE MINIATUEE EOSE. 



(ROSA LAWRENCEANA.) 



IN the botanical catalogues this curious little rose 

 is said to have been introduced from China in 



