150 THE NOISETTE ROSE. 



flowers are much like those of Gloire de Dijon 

 both in colour and shape, only not so beautiful. 

 The plant has also the same robust vigorous 

 habit. 



Culture. 



The dwarf kinds of Noisettes, such as Aimee 

 Vibert, Fellenberg, &c., make pretty bushes for 

 beds. The Tea-scented Noisettes are only adapted 

 for walls and for pillars in warm situations in 

 the south of England, requiring even then the 

 protection recommended for pillar roses, p. 114. 

 A well-grown pillar of such a rose as Cloth of 

 Grold would have a fine effect. This rose re- 

 quires some peculiarities in its treatment, for it is 

 in our cool climate a shy bloomer.* It should be 

 planted against a wall with a warm aspect, the 

 soil well manured and stirred twenty inches deep, 

 and its long robust shoots, which it always makes, 

 not shortened, but trained to their full length, if 

 in a serpentine manner so much the better ; the 

 second year these shoots will give grand trusses 

 of bloom from all the buds in the upper part of 

 the shoot. As soon as the blooms are past, cut 

 out the shoots close to the ground and encourage 



* A very nice method of cultivating this rose is to plant a 

 Banksian Eose against a wall (Fortuniana is the best variety), 

 and after it has made sufficient growth bud it with it. This 

 stock also suits well the other yellow Noisettes, and all the Tea- 

 scented Eoses. 



